An error has taken down a string of high-profile web services for the second time in a little more than a week.

Users across the world started reporting problems with multiple Microsoft services early this morning, including Microsoft 365, Outlook, Azure, Xbox and the popular video game Minecraft.

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".

The "critical" issue was affecting network infrastructure in every region of the provider's global network, Azure said in a status update .

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".

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