Microsoft Reports Connectivity Disruptions Affecting Multiple Regions Worldwide
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Microsoft customers around the world reported sudden service disruptions on Tuesday evening, as the company acknowledged widespread connectivity problems affecting “multiple regions.”
The tech giant said it is working to resolve the issues, which were first flagged in America before Microsoft determined they could be hitting users “in any region.”
In the UK, outage-monitoring site Downdetector recorded a sharp jump in reports of problems with Microsoft Teams at around 6.15pm this evening.
Microsoft said on X that “a portion of infrastructure” was under “elevated load across multiple regions,” a strain it believes is driving the connectivity errors.
The company said engineers had started shifting traffic across its global infrastructure in an effort to stabilise services.
In an update posted just after 7.10pm, Microsoft said: “We’re aggressively pursuing all pathways to reduce impact.
“We’ve paused all deployments, we’re moving additional traffic off the affected infrastructure, and we’re restarting affected servers to return them to service.”
Microsoft also directed users to a status page on its website for the latest information, but some people on X said the page itself would not load.
On that page, Microsoft warns of “service degredation on Microsoft 365” and shows an error message stating: “Users may be unable to connect to multiple Microsoft 365 services.”
