Microsoft outage knocks sites and services offline

Microsoft is experiencing a major outage.

Besides its homepage, Microsoft services are down, log-in pages aren’t loading, and even the company’s status pages were down. Worse, Microsoft’s cloud service Azure appeared to also be offline, causing outages to any sites and services that rely on it.

It’s looking like a DNS networking issue, according to the status page — when it loaded.

We’ve reached out for comment, and we’ll follow up when we know more.

⚠️We are aware of an issue affecting the Azure Portal and Azure services, please visit our alternate Status Page here

https://t.co/vGS3TQ8shs

for more information and updates.

Azure Support (@AzureSupport)

April 1, 2021