Microsoft Azure outage update: What we know about crash disrupting the internet

An apparent Microsoft Azure outage on Wednesday took down important parts of the internet.

The tech giant's cloud computing service confirmed it was having issues.

Wrote Azure on its status page:

"Starting at approximately 16:00 UTC, we began experiencing Azure Front Door (AFD) issues resulting in a loss of availability of some services. We suspect that an inadvertent configuration change as the trigger event for this issue.

We are taking several concurrent actions: Firstly, where we are blocking all changes to the AFD services, this includes customer configuration changes as well. At the same time, we are rolling back our AFD configuration to our last known good state."

Microsoft wrote it did not have an estimated time for when it would be fixed.

User-reported issues on Downdetector indicated people were having issues accessing Microsoft services like Outlook and 265, as well as platforms like Minecraft. (Disclosure: Downdetector is owned by Ziff Davis, the same company that owns Mashable.)

It appeared user-reported issues were trending downward by about 2 p.m. ET, but it was still unclear if the issue was fully resolved. The outage comes just days after last week's massive Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage that took down large swaths of the internet.

This story is developing and will be updated as necessary...