Microsoft: Azure outage caused by DDoS network attack

Microsoft stated that the interruption of Azure cloud applications was caused by a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) network attack. The company mentioned in a status update that the DDoS attack began on Tuesday morning, and an error in Microsoft's automatic protection mechanism exacerbated the impact rather than mitigating it. Customers in multiple regions were affected, including services running on Azure. According to an insider, Starbucks' mobile ordering feature was disabled for several hours due to issues affecting Azure