Microsoft's cloud computing service is down

Microsoft said it is restoring nodes, rerouting traffic through healthy nodes, and load balancing to restore full operational scale.

On October 29, a series of Microsoft's global customers experienced access interruptions due to technical problems related to the Azure cloud computing service.

According to the corporation's announcement, the incident began at around 4 p.m. GMT on October 29 (11 p.m. Vietnam time on October 29) when an "inadvertent configuration change" affected Azure Front Door - a content delivery network used by many businesses to optimize application performance.

By 10:30 p.m. GMT on October 29 (5:30 a.m. Vietnam time), Microsoft said it had completed the re-deployment of the “final secure configuration,” while warning that some users may still experience “intermittent interruptions” during the system recovery process.

The company said it was seeing “clear signs of improvement” in affected areas. Data from DownDetector showed the outage was widespread, affecting sites and services including Xbox, Alaska Airlines and the supermarket chain Costco.

Microsoft further explained that configuration changes are a regular activity in the technology field, but even a small mistake can cause a chain effect in globally connected cloud systems.

Microsoft said it is restoring nodes, rerouting traffic through healthy nodes, and load balancing to restore full operational scale.

The incident comes just a week after Amazon's AWS cloud computing network suffered a glitch that paralyzed many online services, from streaming platforms to banks, for hours. AWS currently leads the global cloud computing market, followed by Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud./.

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