Microsoft faces new wave of outages weeks after global IT failure | Science and technology news

Microsoft’s cloud service has been hit by another outage, weeks after an IT failure in the company’s services brought the world to a standstill.

In a post on X, Cambridge Water said some of its services were down this afternoon.

“Due to worldwide issues with Microsoft Azure, an issue with our website is affecting several services, including MyAccount and PayNow,” the water company said.

Microsoft said it is investigating reports of issues from users, saying: “We are investigating reports of problems connecting to Microsoft services around the world.

The company then announced that it had implemented a fix that appeared to be resolving the issue, saying there had been “improvement in service availability” and that it was “continuing to monitor to ensure full recovery.”

The service status website still showed global issues.

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Thousands of problems have been reported by users of DownDetector, a website that monitors problems with IT services.

Other sites, including creative portfolio site Fabrik and medical jobs site Thalamus, said they were experiencing issues while their services ran on Microsoft Azure.

The incident comes less than two weeks after a major IT outage disabled global infrastructure, including transportation and healthcare services, because a faulty software update from cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike affected Microsoft devices.

After thousands of flights were canceled around the world, US airline Delta is planning to seek compensation from both Crowdstrike and Microsoft.

Delta was one of the airlines that took the longest to recover from the disruption and canceled more than 6,000 flights following the disruption, leaving hundreds of thousands of travelers stranded.

Following the news, Crowdstrike shares fell more than 8% on Tuesday.

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