Windows Azure’s storage service hit a speed bump Thursday, with a full disruption reported across several regions on the company’s status page.

Microsoft(s msft) said the issue surfaced at 2:22 p.m. PDT and as of 3:37 p.m. the status post said:

21 Nov 2013 10:22 PM UTC We are experiencing an issue with Storage connecting to the network in North Central US, South Central US, North Europe, Southeast Asia, West Europe, East Asia, East US and West US. We are actively investigating this issue and assessing its impact to our customers. Further updates will be published to keep you apprised of the impact. We apologize for any inconvenience this causes our customers.

The issue apparently took down Xbox Live and some other services — and even at times the Microsoft status page itself, according to TechCrunch and other reports. I’ll update this story as more information comes available. Update: Several…