<div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>An error has taken down a string of high-profile </span><a href="http://9news.com.au/internet" rel="" target="" title="web"><span>web</span></a><span> services for the second time in a little more than a week.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Users across the world started reporting problems with multiple </span><a href="http://9news.com.au/microsoft" rel="" target="" title="Microsoft"><span>Microsoft</span></a><span> services early this morning, including Microsoft 365, Outlook, Azure, Xbox and the popular video game Minecraft.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Microsoft Azure, the company's massive cloud computing platform, said it started experiencing issues about 3am, blaming an "inadvertent configuration change as the trigger event".</span></div></div><div><div id="adspot-mobile-medium"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE: </span></strong><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/world/hurricane-melissa-update-storm-hits-cuba-after-lashing-jamaica/ad94e02b-508d-4ca6-a3bc-636bea25ae99"><strong><span>Flood kills dozens as 'strongest ever' hurricane rages on</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The "critical" issue was affecting network infrastructure in every region of the provider's global network, Azure said in a </span><a href="https://azure.status.microsoft/en-us/status"><span>status update</span></a><span>.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The provider said it was blocking all changes to the affected part of its service, Azure Front Door, and "rolling back to our last known good state".</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"We do not have an ETA for when the rollback will be completed, but we will update this communication within 30 minutes or when we have an update," Azure said.</span></div></div><div><div class="OUTBRAIN" data-reactroot="" data-src="//www.9news.com.au/world/microsoft-outage-microsoft-365-outlook-azure-xbox-minecraft-and-more-go-down/99cb72e2-b496-47f5-ba64-87666bce2711" data-widget-id="AR_5"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>American users have reported problems with a range of services from shopping sites such as Costco to Alaska Airlines and Starbucks.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>In Australia, the Downdetector reports appeared mostly limited to Microsoft services but that was possibly due to the hour the outage hit.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The problems came less than two weeks after several of the world's biggest websites, apps and services went down due to a </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/amazon-web-services-aws-major-internet-outages-fortnite-snapchat-roblox-canva/fec1083a-3def-47f3-ae8f-79948caebbf2"><span>problem with Amazon Web Services (AWS)</span></a><span>.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE: </span></strong><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/victoria-cricket-player-in-critical-condition-after-incident-during-warm-up-ferntree-gully/c1dcd6ec-69cb-4810-a69c-d8fa5c427e08"><strong><span>Boy fighting for his life after cricket nets horror</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE: </span></strong><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/south-australia-police-nearly-60-people-arrested-major-sting-anon-devices/ac1527d5-e1a0-4630-b242-5a0b5444ac7b" rel="" target="" title=""><strong><span>Dozens charged and $26m seized during 'unprecedented' police sting</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Much like AWS, Azure is a massive cloud computing platform that owns data centres which various companies large and small use to outsource their services.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>It hosts so much of the web that problems can have enormous impacts.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><em><span>More to come.</span></em><span></span></div></div>