Azure is down everywhere. Microsoft
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Microsoft Azure went down globally today.
Microsoft customer-facing services were affected.
Recovery is expected soon.
Last week, Amazon Web Services (AWS) went down, and many of us were miserable. This week, it's Microsoft Azure's turn to fall down and go boom, and once more, we're pretty darn unhappy about it.
Microsoft says this latest Azure outage began at approximately noon ET on October 29. However, Downdetector, which relies on user reports, shows the problems surfaced earlier, around 11:40 a.m.
Latest update
As of 5:30 p.m. ET, Microsoft reported, "We initiated the deployment of our 'last known good' configuration, which has now successfully completed. We are currently recovering nodes and re-routing traffic through healthy nodes."
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