Oct 29 (Reuters) - Microsoft's ( MSFT ) Azure and its

suite of productivity software were down for thousands of users

on Wednesday, according to outage tracking website

Downdetector.com.

Azure was down for over 16,600 users and Microsoft ( MSFT ) 365 was

down for nearly 9,000 users, according to Downdetector, which

tracks outages by collating status reports from a number of

sources.

"We are investigating an issue with the Azure Portal

where customers may be experiencing issues accessing the

portal," Azure said on its status page.