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Oct 29 (Reuters) - An outage at Microsoft's (MSFT.O), opens new tab Azure and its suite of productivity software, affecting a range of industries worldwide, had begun to ease, according to outage-tracking website Downdetector.com. Alaska Airlines (ALK.N), opens new tab said on Wednesday it is experiencing a disruption to key systems, including its website, due to the Azure outage, along with Vodafone (VOD.L), opens new tab in the UK and Heathrow Airport. The Microsoft outage follows last week's disruption at Amazon (AMZN.O), opens new tab AWS, which caused global turmoil among thousands of sites and some of the web's most popular apps, such as Snapchat (SNAP.N), opens new tab and Reddit (RDDT.N), opens new tab. Advertisement · Scroll to continue Microsoft 365 said its services were experiencing downstream impact related to the Azure outage. A recent configuration change to a portion of Azure infrastructure is causing the outage, it said on its status page. Beginning at about 12 p.m. ET, Azure said its customers and Microsoft services that leverage Azure Front Door, a global cloud-based content and application delivery network, had experienced issues resulting in timeouts and errors. Azure, on its status page, said that customers also had faced problems accessing the Azure management portal and that it has taken action to mitigate the issue. Advertisement · Scroll to continue Get the key points from this story with Reuters AI The number of users reporting issues with Azure had come down to 3,299 users as of 1:27 p.m. ET, from a peak of over 18,000, according to Downdetector, which tracks outages by collating status reports from a number of sources. "Customers should be able to access the Azure management portal directly, while all portal extensions are working correctly there may be a small number of endpoints that might have a problem loading (i.e. Marketplace)," Azure said. The outage at Microsoft 365 had eased to 3,858 users reporting issues as of 1:27 p.m. ET, down from nearly 11,700 earlier, Downdetector's website showed. Its numbers are based on user-submitted reports and the actual number of affected users may vary. The AWS outage was the largest internet disruption since last year's CrowdStrike malfunction hobbled technology systems in hospitals, banks and airports, highlighting the vulnerability of the world's interconnected technologies. Ad Break Coming Up NEXT StayNext OffEnglish 180p288p360p480p540p576p720pHD1080pHDAuto (180p) About ConnatixV2127676363 About ConnatixV2127676363 Continue watchingafter the adVisit Advertiser websiteGO TO PAGE Reporting by Juby Babu in Mexico City; Editing by Shailesh Kuber and Alan Barona Purchase Licensing Rights
