Microsoft’s cloud services firm Azure faces outage, customers say they should see improvements soon

Microsoft Azure users will not be able to access Office 365, Minecraft or other services due to cloud service issues, the tech giant said on Wednesday.

The company posted a note on its Azure status page that its teams are currently investigating issues related to its Azure Front Door service, and customers should start seeing “early signs of recovery” soon.

Microsoft did not immediately respond to a request for comment, but the company acknowledged the issues on the page and on its social media accounts.

Because so many sites and services use Microsoft’s cloud service, such an outage could have widespread consequences.

Users reported problems with Office 365, Minecraft,

Microsoft’s Azure problems come just a week after a massive outage of Amazon’s cloud computing service shut down a wide range of online services, including social media, gaming, food delivery, streaming and financial platforms.

The problem started hours before the company released its quarterly earnings report.

Amazon is the leading provider of cloud computing services, but Microsoft is second ahead of Google in most markets.