While the world was focused on the widespread AWS outage – an issue that Amazon denied – Microsoft’s cloud computing platform, Azure, experienced a massive, hours-long service outage too in the late hours of Wednesday, bringing down critical IT infrastructure of global companies and crippling several of the tech giant’s own services. The disruption, which Microsoft later attributed to an “inadvertent configuration change,” affected a major chunk of the internet, affecting everything from travel logistics and retail to online gaming.

In the aviation sector, Alaska Airlines reported “disruption to key systems,” including customer check-in services and its primary website. Similarly, the main website for London’s Heathrow Airport was inaccessible for a period.

The outage also hit financia

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