Microsoft Azure faced a major outage due to a Cyber attack users couldn't access services like Office Outlook and Azure for almost 10 hours so what exactly happened a distributed denial of service or dos attack flooded Microsoft servers with excessive traffic causing them to slow down and crash despite having protection in place an error in the defenses Amplified the issue making things even worse companies like Nat West in the UK were also affected the incident started around 11:45 a.m. UTC and wasn't res D until 1943 p.m. impacted Services included Azure app Services application insights Azure iot Central and more Microsoft has promised to share more details within the next 72 hours in their preliminary post incident review this incident shows the importance of strong cyber security measures and constant testing to prevent such disruption your contribution helps us continue creating informative videos and maintaining this channel you can donate through the link in the description