Network outage hits Microsoft's Azure, Teams, Outlook worldwide
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Microsoft's (NASDAQ:MSFT) Azure cloud platform and Teams and Outlook services around the world were hit by a networking outage on Wednesday.
Azure was impacted in Americas, Europe, Asia Pacific, Middle East and Africa according to Reuters, but services in China and its platform for government remained operational.

The number of users affected were not disclosed, but the outage likely crippled day-to-day operations for the millions of users of Azure, Teams and Outlook, including services in some of the world's largest companies.
Microsoft's Exchange Online, SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business services were also hit.
Microsoft (MSFT) said it rolled back a network change across its wide area network that it believed was causing the issue. Its platforms have since returned to normal but the company is monitoring the service as the rollback takes effect.
The software giant's cloud and Office services were key drivers for its fiscal second-quarter earnings - announced yesterday - that surpassed expectations.