Microsoft services including Outlook, Minecraft and Xbox Cloud Gaming experienced widespread outages Tuesday, disrupting access for millions of users worldwide.

Microsoft's Azure said it was seeing strong improvement in regions that were affected by an outage, impacting the tech giant's suite of productivity software and a range of industries worldwide.

Because the traffic router broke, a huge number of Microsoft services and customer apps could not connect properly, which is why users saw errors, timeouts, and slowness worldwide.