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While the Starbucks app (723) reported outages are dwindling, and reports for Minecraft (6,963) and Xbox Network (2,901) are still holding where we last reported, League of Legends just got a sharp spike up to over 1,000 reports on Down Detector in the UK.
Microsoft Azure down today impact has caused major disruptions across several Microsoft services, including Azure Portal, Microsoft 365, Xbox, and Minecraft. Thousands of users reported access issues on Downdetector.
Deb Hall Lefevre, the longtime tech exec who was most recently CTO at Starbucks, announced her retirement in a LinkedIn post.
SEATTLE — For the third time in three months, Alaska Airlines has experienced a major IT failure.
Still, those changes have been costly. In addition to hiring more staff and redesigning stores, Starbucks incurred $755 million in restructuring charges in the fourth quarter. Late last month, the company laid off 900 non-retail employees and closed 627 stores as part of that restructuring; 90% of them were in North America.
Thousands of reports are pouring in Wednesday of issues with Amazon Web Services, the cloud computing platform that backs up numerous major companies and parts of the internet. More than 6,000 outage reports have been filed today with the monitoring site Downdetector.