A major Microsoft outage has caused services like 365 and Azure cloud platform to go dark hours before the company was set to report its quarterly earnings, CNBC reports.

According to Downdetector, which monitors internet outages, tens of thousands of disruptions appear to have spiked just before noon on Wednesday, Oct. 29. The website, server connection and domain are the most impacted. Xbox and even Minecraft are also affected by the outage, according to The Verge.

“We began experiencing Azure Front Door issues resulting in a loss of availability of some services. In addition, customers may experience issues accessing the Azure Portal,” Microsoft notes on its service’s status page. “Our investigation into the contributing factors and additional recovery workstreams continues.”

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Source: Microsoft outages hit Azure, 365, Xbox. Are they still down? What we know

HSL’s website, application and Journey Planner do not work. The application informs that the service cannot be contacted. The website and the Journey Planner do not open at all.

Due to the disruption, for example, tickets cannot currently be purchased through the app.

Vilma Aho from HSL’s communications says that the problems are related to the Microsoft Azure cloud service’s wider telecommunications problem. According to Aho, a more specific reason is currently being investigated.

According to Aho, the disruption in the services started around six o’clock on Wednesday evening. He could not estimate at about half past seven how long it would take to fix the problem.

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Source: HSL’s website and application do not work