Huge Microsoft outage hit 365, Xbox, and beyond — deployment of fix for Azure breakdown rolled out

Microsoft Azure is facing an outage affecting its Azure platform, with issues starting around 16:00 UTC. This has led to a loss of availability for some services and difficulties accessing the Azure Portal. Customers are advised to use programmatic methods like PowerShell or CLI if direct portal access is not possible. Microsoft is working on mitigating the portal access problems by moving it away from Azure Front Door and is actively assessing the situation.