Microsoft Azure, the tech giant’s expansive cloud computing platform, began experiencing disruptions at around 3 am. The company attributed the issues to an “unintentional configuration change” that triggered the event.

In response, Azure announced it is currently blocking any further changes to the impacted segment of its service, known as Azure Front Door, and is in the process of “reverting to our most recent stable state.”

“While we don’t have an estimated timeframe for completing the rollback, we are committed to updating this notice within 30 minutes or as soon as new information becomes available,” stated Azure.

Users in the United States have encountered difficulties with various services, including retail sites like Costco, as well as companies such as Alaska Airlines and Starbucks.

In Australia, reports on Downdetector primarily focused on Microsoft services, likely due to the timing of the outage.

Much like AWS, Azure is a massive cloud computing platform that owns data centres which various companies large and small use to outsource their services.

It hosts so much of the web that problems can have enormous impacts.