Microsoft experiencing new wave of outages weeks after global IT failure

Microsoft's cloud service has been hit by another outage, weeks after an IT failure in the company's services ground the world to a halt.

In a post on X, Cambridge Water said some of its services were down this afternoon.

"Due to worldwide issues with Microsoft Azure, a problem with our website is affecting several services including MyAccount and PayNow," said the water company.

Microsoft said it is investigating reports of user problems, saying: "We are investigating reports of issues connecting to Microsoft services globally.

"Customers may experience timeouts connecting to Azure services. We have multiple engineering teams engaged to diagnose and resolve the issue. More details will be provided as soon as possible."

Thousands of issues were reported by users on DownDetector, a website that monitors problems with IT services.

The incident comes less than two weeks after a major IT outage knocked global infrastructure including transport and healthcare services offline because a flawed software update from cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike affected Microsoft devices.

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