Microsoft global outage causes problems for airlines, financial, media sectors

International Desk, July 19 (EFE).- A global outage in Microsoft’s system has caused problems in many companies, including the airline, financial, media, and other industries in different parts of the world.

According to Downdetector, a website that monitors outages, sudden spikes in incidents have been recorded since late Thursday on different websites that include Microsoft applications.

Problems were initially detected in the United States and then spread to different parts of the world.

Microsoft Azure, the cloud computing platform for managing applications and services, has confirmed on social networks that problems were being ed and that they were looking into them and working on their resolution.

All the flights of several of the major US airlines, including Delta, United and American Airlines, were grounded early Friday due to a blackout suffered by Microsoft.

The US Federal Aviation istration (FAA) confirmed the incident has affected flights of all airlines in the country, regardless of destination.

In the United Kingdom, several airlines, the London Stock Exchange, railway companies, airports and the Sky television network have recorded interruptions in their operations on Friday.

Air traffic was suspended at the Berlin Brandenburg Airport in . Other parts of the world reported similar problems across different sectors.

A configuration change in a part of the Azure backend workloads, reportedly caused connectivity failures between storage and compute resources. This interruption impacted downstream Microsoft 365 services.

Microsoft said it was working to mitigate the impact of the global outage on its applications and on Microsoft 365 services, and was redirecting affected traffic to alternative systems to alleviate this impact in a more convenient way. EFE

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