Microsoft has deployed a fix to address an outage of its Azure cloud portal, which left users unable to access Office 365, Minecraft and other services.

The tech company wrote on its Azure status page that a configuration change to its Azure infrastructure caused the outage and that a fix was being rolled out.

Microsoft did not immediately respond to a request for comment, but the company acknowledged issues with its Azure Front Door, a global content and application delivery network, service on its status page and social media accounts.

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