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A widespread Microsoft Azure outage on October 29 produced a cascading series of failures that briefly knocked airline and airport digital services offline, preventing online check‑in, blocking payment flows and digital boarding‑pass issuance for thousands of travelers, and exposing stark...

Microsoft Azure suffered a widespread, high‑impact outage on October 29 that knocked Microsoft 365, Xbox/Minecraft, the Azure Portal and thousands of customer sites offline or into intermittent failure for several hours while engineers rolled back an inadvertent Azure Front Door (AFD)...

Microsoft’s cloud platform faltered for much of an evening this week, exposing brittle dependencies that ripple through retail, transport and public services and forcing British and European organisations to rethink how they buy and protect essential digital infrastructure. Background The...

The timing could not have been more dramatic: as Microsoft celebrated a quarter of blistering cloud growth, a configuration misstep in Azure’s global edge fabric knocked large swathes of services offline — an outage that fast‑forwards an already urgent debate about hyperscaler concentration...

Amazon’s firm denial that “AWS is operating normally” was the most visible line in a confusing, multi‑cloud disruption that left outage trackers and frustrated users pointing fingers at both Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure — even as vendor status pages told two different stories about...

Microsoft’s Azure cloud suffered a widespread outage on October 29 that knocked Microsoft 365, Xbox, airline check‑in systems, and thousands of customer websites offline for hours before engineers rolled back a faulty Azure Front Door configuration and gradually rebalanced traffic to restore...

Windows 11 Insiders are now being offered a small but potentially meaningful change to crash recovery: when the operating system detects a bugcheck (an unexpected restart, commonly visible to users as a blue/green/black screen), Windows may prompt you at sign‑in to schedule a quick Windows...

Microsoft’s cloud suffered a major outage on October 29, 2025 that left Microsoft 365, Xbox Live, the Azure management portal and thousands of customer websites intermittently unreachable for hours — a failure Microsoft attributes to an inadvertent configuration change in Azure Front Door (AFD)...

Microsoft’s cloud backbone stumbled mid‑day on October 29, 2025, when an inadvertent configuration change to Azure Front Door — the global edge and traffic‑routing fabric that fronts many Microsoft services and thousands of customer sites — triggered widespread latencies, authentication failures...

Microsoft engineers reported that they had begun restoring service after a global Azure outage triggered by an inadvertent configuration change in Azure Front Door (AFD), an incident that knocked Microsoft 365, the Azure Portal, Xbox/Minecraft sign‑ins and thousands of customer sites offline...

Millions of users and thousands of businesses worldwide were knocked offline for hours after a widespread Microsoft outage tied to Azure Front Door left Azure, Microsoft 365, Outlook, Teams, Xbox and other services unreachable or sluggish on October 29–30, 2025, exposing how a single...

Microsoft’s cloud fabric hit a global snag that blanked sign‑ins, timed out checkouts and produced a livestream of memes across social media as engineers worked to roll back a change and bring services back online. Background / Overview The disruption began as a routing and DNS‑related...

Ava Risk Group’s hybrid Annual General Meeting proceeded in person in Melbourne despite a last‑minute disruption to its virtual component after a global outage that hit Microsoft’s Azure platform, with the company warning shareholders that online participation and voting could be interrupted...

A configuration error in Microsoft’s global edge service reverberated across travel, gaming, and enterprise systems on October 29, 2025, knocking out customer-facing websites and critical management portals and leaving passengers, gamers, and IT teams scrambling for manual workarounds...

Microsoft’s cloud fabric showed early signs of recovery late Wednesday after a global Azure outage that began mid‑day on October 29 and knocked a swath of Microsoft services, customer portals and dozens of downstream business systems offline — an incident engineers traced to an inadvertent...

A widespread Microsoft Azure outage today disrupted online check-in, mobile apps, and other key digital services for Alaska Airlines and Hawaiian Airlines, forcing travelers to queue at airports and complicating an already fragile recovery from a separate IT failure earlier this month. The...

Microsoft Azure suffered a widespread, multi-region outage on October 29, 2025, taking down a swath of Microsoft customer-facing services — from Microsoft 365 and Copilot to Xbox Live and Minecraft — and triggering recovery procedures that centered on rolling back Azure Front Door (AFD) to a...

Microsoft’s Azure cloud suffered a major, global outage on October 29, 2025, knocking customers offline and disrupting widely used services — including Microsoft 365 (Office 365), Outlook, Teams, Xbox Live and Minecraft — after a configuration-related failure in Azure’s edge routing fabric...

Microsoft’s cloud backbone faltered in mid‑afternoon UTC on October 29, 2025, producing a broad global outage that left Microsoft 365 portals, Xbox and Minecraft sign‑ins, and a raft of third‑party websites intermittently unreachable — a failure Microsoft attributed to problems in Azure Front...

Microsoft’s cloud fabric suffered a major, wide‑ranging disruption that left customers — from gamers to airlines and enterprise admins — facing timeouts, failed sign‑ins and blank management portals as engineers worked to roll back changes and restore edge routing capacity. Background / Overview...