NEW YORK (AP) — Microsoft has deployed a fix to address an outage of their Azure cloud portal that left users unable to access Office 365, Minecraft and other services.
The tech company wrote on its to its Azure status page that a configuration change to its Azure infrastructure caused the outage, and that its fix is being rolled out.
Microsoft didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment, but the company acknowledged issues with its Azure Front Door, a global content and application delivery network, service on its status page and social media accounts.
Because so many sites and services use Microsoft's cloud service, an outage like this one can have widespread impact.
On Downdetector, a website that tracks online outages, users reported issues throughout the day with Office 365, Minecraft, XBox Live, Copilot, Costco, Starbucks, and many other services.
Alaska Airline wrote on its X account that the outage is at the heart of problems affecting their systems, including check-in services.
Air New Zealand, the national carrier, warned of travel delays because the airline couldn't process payments or digital boarding passes. The websites for New Zealand's police and parliament were among those taken down by the outage
Microsoft’s Azure troubles came just hours before the company was set to release its quarterly earnings report, and just over a week after a massive outage of Amazon’s cloud computing service took down a broad range of online services, including social media, gaming, food delivery, streaming and financial platforms.
Amazon is the dominant provider of cloud computing services but Microsoft ranks second, ahead of Google, in most markets.
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AP writer Charlotte Graham-McLay contributed to this story.
FILE - The logo of Microsoft is seen outside its French headquarters in Issy-les-Moulineaux, outside Paris on May 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus, File)
PROVO, Utah (AP) — Corinne Stoddard and Kristen Santos-Griswold are back on the U.S. short track speedskating team for the Milan Cortina Olympics, part of an eight-athlete squad introduced Saturday night at halftime of the No. 10-ranked BYU men’s basketball team’s game against UC Riverside.
In addition to Stoddard and Santos-Griswold, the other women on the roster for the Feb. 6-22 Winter Games are Kamryn Lute, Julie Letai and Eunice Lee. The men are Andrew Heo, Brandon Kim and Clayton DeClemente.
Short track will be held Feb. 10-20 at the Milano Ice Skating Arena.
Unlike ahead of other recent Olympics, there were no U.S. trials to select the short track team. Instead, skaters were picked based on recent results. The U.S. long track speedskating team will be determined by the results at Olympic trials in Milwaukee in early January.
Like Stoddard, a 24-year-old from Washington state, and Santos-Griswold, a 31-year-old from Connecticut, Letai, Lee and Heo are headed to their second Olympics.
Stoddard grabbed 12 medals over the four ISU Short Track World Tour stops this season. Santos-Griswold was the world champion last year at 1,000 meters.
Letai, a 25-year-old from Massachusetts, and Lee, a 21-year-old from Washington state, both earned a relay silver at last year’s world championships.
Heo, a 24-year-old from Pennsylvania, won a mixed relay bronze at the 2024 worlds.
Lute is a 21-year-old from New York who goes to the University of Utah, Kim is a 24-year-old from Virginia studying at Stanford, and DeClemente is a 26-year-old from New York.
AP Olympics: https://apnews.com/hub/milan-cortina-2026-winter-olympics
The United States men's and women's short track speedskating team is introduced during halftime of an NCAA college basketball game between UC Riverside and BYU, Saturday, Dec. 13, 2025, in Provo, Utah. (AP Photo/Tyler Tate)
The United States men's and women's short track speedskating team is introduced during halftime of an NCAA college basketball game between UC Riverside and BYU, Saturday, Dec. 13, 2025, in Provo, Utah. (AP Photo/Tyler Tate)
