India, Oct. 29 -- Microsoft Azure users noticed problems on Wednesday, particularly around the Azure Portal and services in the Eastern United States.

Azure outage occurred due to a cloud-service issue and there was no direct intervention from the official Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT). In response to user complaints of disturbances across Microsoft's major productivity tools, Downdetector, a tool that monitors outages by compiling status information from several sources, found that Microsoft 365 was unavailable for around 9,000 users, while Azure was unavailable for more than 16,600 users.

In a post on X, Azure Support account wrote, "We're investigating an issue impacting Azure Front Door services. Customers may experience inte...