Microsoft said its cloud services were recovering from an outage that disrupted its workplace software products and the operations of several companies. At one point on Wednesday afternoon, Microsoft’s Azure cloud status page reported network issues across all of its data centre regions worldwide. The error cascaded to more than a dozen other Azure services, including employee authentication services, cybersecurity tools and databases. Microsoft, which reported financial results hours after the outage began, declined to comment beyond its public status updates. The event dragged on for about 15 hours before the company managed to get all of its services back online.
