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.
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Microsoft's cloud infrastructure faltered Wednesday afternoon, triggering a widespread Azure outage that knocked out access to multiple first‑party services — notably Xbox game downloads, Minecraft online services, and the Azure management portal — and forced Microsoft engineers to halt changes...
A high‑impact Microsoft Azure outage on October 10, 2023 disrupted access to major consumer and enterprise services — notably Xbox sign‑in flows and Office 365 web experiences — and exposed an architectural blind spot in how edge routing and centralized identity interact across Microsoft’s cloud...
Microsoft Azure experienced a large, cross‑product disruption that knocked the Azure Portal and numerous consumer and enterprise services offline for hours, with Microsoft pointing to a problem in Azure Front Door (AFD) and a suspected configuration change as the trigger while engineers worked...
Internet traffic between Asia, the Middle East and parts of Europe slowed sharply after multiple undersea fibre‑optic cables in the Red Sea were severed on 6 September 2025, forcing cloud operators — most visibly Microsoft Azure — and regional carriers to reroute traffic, warn customers of...
Microsoft Azure is universally recognized as a linchpin of cloud computing, underpinning a vast spectrum of digital transformation initiatives across the globe. As part of Microsoft’s ecosystem—representing nearly half of the corporation’s net sales through its suite of operating systems and...
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Imagine it’s a regular weekday, and your business is humming along smoothly on Azure’s cloud platform. Suddenly, a routine task—accessing your database, triggering an app function, or generating a Business Intelligence report—throws an error. The culprit? A massive Azure networking outage that...
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When a Security Solution Becomes the Point of Failure
If you're relying on Microsoft's Azure or Microsoft 365 services for your professional or personal workflows, January 13, 2025, might have been a rather unproductive day. In an instant, users from Western Europe, along with scattered reports...
Imagine waking up on a Monday, grabbing your coffee, and sitting down to log into your work apps, only to encounter a virtual brick wall. This was reality for countless users of Microsoft Azure and Microsoft 365 (M365) in Europe on January 13, 2025, when a major multi-factor authentication (MFA)...