Microsoft Azure reported issues today, a day after AWS reported increased latency on its platform.

The problems came a little over a week after a US-EAST-1 Region AWS outage that caused widespread downtime.

"Starting at approximately 16:00 UTC, we began experiencing Azure Front Door issues resulting in a loss of availability of some services," Microsoft said in an Azure status update.

"In addition, customers may experience issues accessing the Azure Portal. Customers can attempt to use programmatic methods (PowerShell, CLI, etc.) to access/utilize resources if they are unable to access the portal directly. We have failed the portal away from Azure Front Door (AFD) to attempt to mitigate the portal access issues and are continuing to assess the situation.

"We are actively assessing failover options of internal services from our AFD infrastructure. Our investigation into the contributing factors and additional recovery workstreams continues. More information will be provided within 60 minutes or sooner."

AWS said of its issues yesterday: "Between 9:00 AM and 10:43 PM PDT, we experienced increased latencies for EC2 instance launches within the use1-az2 Availability Zone (AZ) in the US-EAST-1 Region. In addition, we experienced increased ECS task and pod launch failure rates. This impacted services that depend on ECS, including Fargate, EMR Serverless, MWAA, CodeBuild, EKS, Glue, AppRunner, DataSync, MWAA, and AWS Batch.

"As part of the recovery effort, we temporarily throttled ECS operations in three impacted cells. At 10:43 PM, we had fully mitigated the issue. The issue has been resolved and the service is operating normally."

At the same time, CDN operator Cloudflare said that it "is aware of and investigating errors that are not allowing users to purchase domains using Social sign-in methods."