Microsoft Azure’s services restored after global outage

Microsoft said late on Wednesday it had resolved an outage of its Azure cloud platform that had impacted the tech giant’s suite of productivity software, and a range of industries worldwide.

“While error rates and latency are back to pre-incident levels, a small number of customers may still be seeing issues, and we are still working to mitigate this long tail,” Microsoft Azure said, adding that the incident lasted for over 8 hours.

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