Microsoft Says It’s Recovering From Global Cloud Outage (1)

Microsoft Corp. cloud services are recovering from an outage that disrupted its workplace software products and the operations of several companies, including Alaska Air Group Inc.

The outage hit a service called Azure Front Door, which acts as an entry point for web applications built atop the company’s servers, beginning at about noon Wednesday New York time, the company said. The product includes tools that route internet traffic to nearby data centers for faster access. At one point Wednesday afternoon, Microsoft’s Azure cloud status page reported network issues across all of its data center regions worldwide.

The error cascaded to ...