Microsoft Azure faces outage, Starbucks, Minecraft among those affected | Top points

The tech company wrote on its Azure status page that a configuration change to its Azure infrastructure caused the outage, and that its fix is being rolled out.

Because so many sites and services use Microsoft's cloud service, an outage like this one can have a widespread impact.

Alaska Airlines wrote on its X account that the outage is at the heart of problems affecting their systems, including check-in services.