Microsoft’s Outlook email hit by new outage

Summary

• Microsoft's Outlook email service is experiencing an outage preventing users from accessing their inboxes.
• The issue initially affected the U.S. & the Americas before expanding to any region.
• Microsoft attributed the disruption to elevated load on some infrastructure & stated it was redistributing connection traffic across its worldwide infrastructure.
• Microsoft has not provided a specific cause for the outage.
• The company's admin center was unreachable at the time of publication.
• Microsoft's last major incident occurred in September, causing a days-long outage of Microsoft 365 due to a core authentication configuration.
• It is unclear to what extent the current outage extends to other services.