If there's one thing last week's big AWS outage should have taught us, it's that putting all our eggs into one giant tech basket may not be a great idea. And in case we didn't adequately take that lesson to heart, here's another opportunity: Just hours before Microsoft is set to deliver its quarterly financial report, its Azure service is taking it on the chin. As reported by MSNBC, Azure cloud and 365 services are currently suffering widespread outages.
The problem first came to our attention by way of Obsidian, which said on Bluesky that The Outer Worlds 2, which launched today, might be temporarily unavailable on Xbox platforms "due to an ongoing Azure service outage." The Minecraft website has also been intermittently up and down for the past hour or so—I'm currently able to access it, but it's slow.
