Microsoft announced ongoing “network availability” issues on AzureMicrosoft Microsoft is down, with thousands of users reporting an outage online(Image: AP)

Microsoft is down, with thousands of users reporting an outage online.

Problems began around 3.30pm, with Xbox and Minecraft players also recording issues, according to Downdetector.

Reports peaked at 4.30PM with users around the world flagging issues, including 38 per cent in the USA’s east coast, 34 per cent in the EU and 28 per cent in the USA’s west coast.

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On Downdetector, people are flagging problems with applications such as Snapchat, Roblox, Fortnite, Duolingo and Canva.

On Wednesday, Microsoft announced ongoing “network availability” issues on Azure.

They wrote: “We are taking two concurrent actions where we are blocking all changes to the AFD services and at the same time rolling back to our last known good state.”

On the Azure website, they state: “Starting at approximately 16:00 UTC, customers and Microsoft services that leverage Azure Front Door (AFD) may have experienced issues resulting in latencies, timeouts and errors.

“We have confirmed that an inadvertent configuration change as the trigger event for this issue.”

Full list of services effected by Microsoft outage

Asda

Minecraft

Microsoft Azure

Xbox Network

BT

Microsoft 365

Microsoft Store

Microsoft Outlook

NatWest

Community Fibre

O2

Costco

Microsoft Teams

EE

My Vue

Whatsapp

John Lewis

Vodafone

Vinted

RBS

Kroger

M&S Bank

Amazon

Google

Cloudflare

Netatmo

Google CLoud

Jet2.com

OS Maps

Hastings Direct

Smarty

Playstation Network

EA

Next PLC

Lloyds Bank

Virgin Media

Sky

GOV.UK

Sea of Thieves

Sainsbury’s

Microsoft Entra

Now

Roblox

LinkedIn

Microsoft Copilot

Nationwide

Battlefield

Greggs

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Starbucks