Microsoft Azure has gone down, dragging Office 365, Minecraft, X-Box Live, Copilot and many other services with it for thousands of people.

Outage tracker Downdetector showed thousands of people worldwide are having issues with websites and apps this evening.

An issue with Azure, the tech giant’s flagship cloud computing product that underpins large parts of the internet, is behind the outage.

Azure was down for more than 16,600 users and Microsoft 365, which includes Outlook and Teams, was down for nearly 9,000. Other impacted sites include the mobile phone operator O2, Heathrow Airport and the bank Natwest.

More than 1,400 people say they are struggling to use the Asda website and app – the supermarket said last month that Azure ‘will serve as the backbone of Asda’s digital infrastru

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