Microsoft Azure “Cloud Crash” Leaves Thousands Stranded – Can MSFT Stock Weather the Storm?
Outage Details and Scope Early Wednesday morning, users worldwide began encountering errors with Microsoft cloud services. Tech sites like TechRadar noted a “major outage” affecting numerous platforms – Azure login failures were “knocking out Microsoft 365 services and even Minecraft”techradar.com. Tom’s Guide reported that around 9 a.m. PT simultaneous issues struck Azure, Microsoft 365, Xbox Live and moretomsguide.com. Outage-tracker DownDetector (https://downdetector.com) logged spikes of nearly 10,000 incident reports across Microsoft’s offerings. In some regions, employees could not access work applications at all, and Microsoft’s own support portal showed widespread “investigating” alerts. According to Downdetector (a crowd-sourced outage aggregator), the scale was