Microsoft suffered a widespread outage on Thursday that impacted thousands of users across regions, according to outage-tracking website Downdetector.com.
The outage began shortly before 1 p.m. and impacted Microsoft 365 services, Outlook and Teams. Amazon Web Services and Google users also reported outages on the site.
"We are aware and investigating reports of users experiencing issues with Microsoft 365 services, primarily issues with Exchange Online," a Microsoft spokesperson wrote in a statement to CNBC. "We appreciate our customers' patience while we work to restore services as soon as possible."
Microsoft shared from its Microsoft 365 Status account on social media platform X.
At 4 p.m., Microsoft said it had "validated an alternative service health check method" that brought some affected servers back online.