Massive Azure outage recovery efforts underway – here’s the latest

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ZDNET’s key takeaways

• Microsoft Azure went down globally today.
• Microsoft customer-facing services were affected.
• Recovery is expected soon.

Last week, Amazon Web Services (AWS) went down, and many of us were miserable. This week, it’s Microsoft Azure’s turn to fall down and go boom, and once more, we’re pretty darn unhappy about it. 

Microsoft says this latest Azure outage began at approximately noon ET on October…