Microsoft outage: Heathrow, NatWest and Minecraft among sites down

Asda, NatWest and Minecraft are among some of the services experiencing problems due to a Microsoft outage.

Outage tracker Downdetector showed thousands of reports of issues with a number of websites globally on Wednesday.

Microsoft said some users of Microsoft 365, which includes Outlook and Teams, might see delays.

The company's Azure cloud computing platform, which underpins large parts of the internet, reported a "degradation of some services" at 1600 GMT.

It said this was due to "DNS issues" - the same route cause of the huge Amazon Web Services outage last week.

Microsoft has been contacted for comment.