India, Oct. 30 -- Days after a major outage of cloud computing, Amazon Web Services, another widespread disruption hit Microsoft's Azure and AWS late on Wednesday, which affected dozens of websites and apps.

The glitch was linked to Azure's global content delivery network and its Front Door services, due to which users were unable to access Microsoft 365, Minecraft, Outlook and other services for hours.

The Microsoft Azure outage that hit on Wednesday significantly impacted the Eastern United States, where difficulties were said to have started at approximately 4 p.m. UTC (9:30 pm). In a statement, Microsoft said that the DNS problems caused the troubles, later adding that things have started to recover.

At one point, over 18,000 users...