Heathrow, NatWest and Minecraft among sites down

Heathrow, NatWest and Minecraft are among some of the sites and services experiencing problems due to Microsoft’s outage.

Outage tracker Downdetector showed thousands of reports of problems on multiple websites around the world on Wednesday.

Microsoft, some Microsoft 365 usersThere may be delays in the version that includes Outlook and Teams.

The company’s Azure cloud computing platform, which powers much of the internet,disruption of some services“At 16:00 GMT.

I was told this was due to “DNS issues” – same route reason major Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage last week.

Amazon says AWS is currently operating normally.

Other sites affected in the UK include supermarket Asda and mobile operator O2; In the US, people reported problems accessing the websites of coffee chain Starbucks and retailer Kroger.

On the service status pageAzure’s network infrastructure appeared to be “critical” in every region of the world.

Microsoft said commercial Microsoft 365 customers may experience problems.

It said it found connectivity issues in some parts of the infrastructure and was working to “reroute affected traffic to restore service health.”

started a topic on x The updates come after some users reported that they were unable to access the service status page.

Meanwhile, business in the Scottish Parliament has been suspended due to technical problems with the parliament’s online voting system.

A senior source at the Scottish Parliament told BBC News they believed the problems were caused by Microsoft’s outage.

Microsoft has been contacted for comment.