India, Oct. 29 -- A number of Microsoft's essential services, including Teams, Azure, Microsoft 365, and the Microsoft Store, faced major outage, causing disruptions for customers throughout the United States. The outage significantly impacted the Eastern United States, where difficulties were said to have started at approximately 4 p.m. UTC.

Microsoft Azure outage caused a great deal of frustration for customers who rely on Microsoft's cloud and productivity tools for everyday tasks.

Downdetector tracked 16,600 Azure outage complaints and over 9,000 Microsoft 365 outage reports. According to Microsoft, the outage was caused by a DNS problem that affected Azure Front Door services.

Microsoft said in a formal post on its Azure Support a...