Microsoft's Azure cloud computing platform is enduring an outage that is affecting many Microsoft services ahead of its scheduled quarterly earnings report.

Microsoft users reported outages for Azure and 365 services a week after many customers of Amazon Web Services suffered hours of downtime.

Thousands of users reported issues or outages with Microsoft Azure and Microsoft 365, outage tracking website Downdetector showed.

Microsoft's Azure cloud computing platform is enduring an outage that is affecting many Microsoft services ahead of its scheduled quarterly earnings report.