Microsoft Azure Experiencing Global Outage Affecting Multiple Regions and Services
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Summary
Microsoft Azure is experiencing a major global outage affecting multiple services including the Azure portal, Front Door services, and CDN across multiple regions worldwide. The outage began approximately 5 minutes ago and affects regions including US East/Central, West US, Netherlands, UK, Italy, and New Zealand. Despite the widespread issues, Azure's status pages still show green indicators. This follows a similar AWS outage that occurred last week.
Key quotes
· 4 pulledmultiple global regions report that Azure is offline — portal won't load (even cached), Front Door services unreachable, CDN failing
US East/Central, West US, Netherlands, UK, Italy, NZ all reporting issues
Status pages still show green
Last week AWS, now this
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