India, Oct. 29 -- Microsoft Corp. faced a major global outage on Wednesday that disrupted access to its Azure cloud platform and key services under the Microsoft 365 suite, temporarily affecting thousands of users worldwide.

Issuing an update over the matter, the tech giant said a "recent configuration change" to a portion of its Azure infrastructure had triggered the outage.

"We're pursuing multiple remediation strategies, including moving traffic away from the impacted infrastructure and blocking the offending change," Microsoft 365 said in an update on its service status page, reported Reuters.

Microsoft confirmed that users were unable to access several of its business applications and gaming services, including Office 365, Minecra...