cloud outages

Microsoft’s cloud fabric tripped in plain sight on October 29 when an inadvertent configuration change inside Azure Front Door (AFD) produced DNS, TLS and routing anomalies that cascaded into an eight‑plus‑hour disruption across Microsoft 365, the Azure Portal, gaming services and thousands of...

Microsoft confirmed it has rolled out a remediation after a global Azure outage on October 29 that left Microsoft 365, Xbox/Minecraft sign‑ins, the Azure management portal and a wide swath of customer websites intermittently unreachable — an incident Microsoft says was triggered by an...

A sweeping cloud failure on October 29 knocked major Microsoft services and a long tail of customer sites offline, and came on the heels of a separate Amazon Web Services disruption earlier in October — together the incidents laid bare the concentrated fragility of modern cloud infrastructure...

On October 29–31, 2025 Microsoft’s cloud experienced a high‑visibility disruption that left Microsoft 365 users, game players, retailers and several high‑profile consumer services intermittently unreachable — engineers traced the proximate trigger to a configuration error in Azure Front Door...

Microsoft’s cloud backbone faltered on October 29, 2025, when a configuration error in Azure Front Door — Microsoft’s global edge and routing fabric — precipitated a broad Microsoft Azure outage that knocked Xbox Live, Minecraft authentication, Microsoft 365 admin portals and a raft of customer...

Microsoft engineers pushed a rollback and other mitigations after a global Azure outage tied to an inadvertent configuration change in Azure Front Door (AFD), restoring most services within hours but leaving a clear trail of operational and architectural questions for enterprises that rely on a...

The Scottish Parliament was forced to suspend and ultimately cancel an evening of votes after a global Microsoft Azure outage knocked Holyrood’s electronic voting system offline on October 29, 2025, leaving lawmakers unable to cast ballots on nearly 400 amendments to the Land Reform Bill and...

Microsoft confirmed today that it has restored the bulk of services after a major global outage of its Azure cloud platform that began on October 29, 2025 and lasted for more than eight hours, with the disruption traced to an inadvertent configuration change in Azure Front Door that produced DNS...

Microsoft’s cloud fabric hiccup on October 29, 2025, briefly knocked wide swathes of its ecosystem — including Microsoft 365 (Office 365), Xbox Live/Minecraft sign‑in flows, and the Azure management portal — offline for many customers as engineers traced the fault to an inadvertent configuration...

Microsoft’s cloud backbone hiccupped again this month, and the tremors were felt across offices, shops, airlines and living rooms around the world: a widespread Microsoft Azure outage triggered by an “inadvertent configuration change” to the Azure Front Door service left Microsoft 365, Xbox...

Microsoft has confirmed it resolved a major Azure outage that began on October 29 and persisted for more than eight hours, after an inadvertent configuration change to Azure Front Door produced widespread DNS, routing, and authentication failures that cascaded through Microsoft 365, Xbox, and...

Yesterday’s outage story had a twist: crowd-sourced monitors and social feeds made it look like Amazon Web Services (AWS) was failing again, but the root cause was a separate Microsoft Azure outage — and the misattribution exposed how fragile public outage narratives can become when cloud...

Microsoft’s cloud control plane hiccup on October 29 spilled into millions of user sessions and high‑profile business systems before engineers regained control by rolling Azure’s edge fabric back to a “last known good” configuration and rerouting traffic through healthy nodes. Background...

Microsoft’s global cloud fabric tripped in the mid‑afternoon UTC window on October 29, triggering a wide‑reaching Azure outage that left Heathrow check‑in kiosks and dozens of consumer and enterprise services — notably Xbox, Minecraft and Microsoft 365 — intermittently or wholly unreachable for...

On October 29 a broad Microsoft service disruption knocked Microsoft 365, Azure management surfaces, Xbox/Minecraft authentication and thousands of Azure‑fronted customer sites offline or intermittently unreliable, with Microsoft tracing the incident to an inadvertent configuration change in...

Thousands of businesses and millions of users worldwide were disrupted on October 29, 2025, when a configuration error in Microsoft Azure’s global content delivery fabric triggered an hours‑long cloud outage that knocked out Microsoft 365, Xbox services, Minecraft, and hit retail and travel apps...

Microsoft’s late‑October cloud disruption — an Azure Front Door configuration error that briefly knocked Microsoft 365, Azure portals and thousands of customer sites offline — and an earlier October AWS control‑plane/DNS failure that disrupted services across the U.S. East region together...

A high‑impact Microsoft Azure outage on October 29, 2025, knocked large swathes of internet services offline for hours — from Microsoft’s own productivity suite and gaming ecosystem to major airline check‑in systems and retail storefronts — after an inadvertent configuration change to Azure...

Microsoft engineers have rolled out fixes and reported progressive recovery after a widespread Azure outage on October 29 that disrupted Microsoft 365, Xbox, Minecraft and a raft of third‑party sites and business systems — an incident Microsoft traced to an inadvertent configuration change in...

Microsoft’s cloud fabric sputtered in a way that left email, collaboration, gaming and dozens of customer-facing websites unusable for hours — an outage Microsoft traced to an “inadvertent configuration change” in Azure Front Door that cascaded through routing, DNS and identity flows and forced...