An apparent Microsoft Azure outage on Wednesday took down important parts of the internet.

The tech giant's cloud computing service confirmed it was having issues.

Wrote Azure on its status page :

"Starting at approximately 16:00 UTC, we began experiencing Azure Front Door (AFD) issues resulting in a loss of availability of some services. We suspect that an inadvertent configuration change as the trigger event for this issue.

We are taking several concurrent actions: Firstly, where we are blocking all changes to the AFD services, this includes customer configuration changes as well. At the same time, we are rolling back our AFD configuration to our last known good state."

Azure has since updated that it had "initiated the deployment of our last known good configuration, which is

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