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2026-11-12 · CNBC

Microsoft outage hits Outlook. AWS and Google users also report issues

Microsoft suffered a widespread outage on Thursday that impacted thousands of users in North America, according to outage-tracking website Downdetector.com . The outage began shortly before 1 p.m. and affected services like Outlook, Teams and 365. Amazon Web Services and Google users also reported outages on the site. "We've determined a portion of infrastructure is experiencing elevated load across multiple regions, which is likely contributing to the connectivity errors," the company's Microsoft 365 Status account wrote in a post to social media platform X shortly after 1:30 p.m. ET. The company determined that the outage was caused by an increase in unavailable servers and launched a restart of impacted servers.

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