Microsoft says users of its Azure cloud portal may be not be able to access Office 365, Minecraft or other services due to issues with its domain name system.

Microsoft's Azure cloud computing platform is enduring an outage that is affecting many Microsoft services ahead of the tech firm's scheduled quarterly earnings report on Wednesday.

The outage at Microsoft 365 had eased to 3,858 users reporting issues as of 1:27 p.m. ET, down from nearly 11,700 earlier, Downdetector's website showed.