cloud outages

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...

Microsoft’s cloud backbone briefly collapsed on October 29 when an inadvertent configuration change in Azure Front Door (AFD) — Microsoft’s global Layer‑7 edge and application‑delivery fabric — propagated across the edge control plane, producing DNS, routing and authentication failures that...

Microsoft’s cloud platform suffered a major disruption on Wednesday that knocked portions of Azure — including its global content delivery fabric, Azure Front Door — offline and produced cascading outages across Microsoft services and dozens of customer companies, from consumer apps like Xbox...

Microsoft’s Azure cloud suffered a high-impact, global disruption on October 29, 2025, after an inadvertent configuration change in Azure Front Door (AFD) produced DNS and routing failures that knocked Microsoft 365, Xbox services (including Minecraft), the Azure management portal and thousands...

Microsoft’s cloud went dark for a chunk of the global workday on October 29, 2025, when a configuration error in Azure Front Door (AFD) cascaded through the company’s edge and identity fabric, knocking Microsoft Azure, Microsoft 365, Xbox services and thousands of customer sites into partial or...

The internet flickered and, for millions of users and hundreds of thousands of downstream services, it briefly went dark — first with a major AWS incident in mid‑October and then with a widespread Microsoft Azure outage on October 29 that was traced to a misapplied configuration change in Azure...

Microsoft's cloud backbone entered emergency recovery mode after a pervasive outage centered on Azure Front Door (AFD) disrupted Microsoft’s own services and thousands of customer endpoints worldwide, forcing engineers to roll back to a “last known good” configuration, freeze further AFD...

Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform suffered a high‑visibility, multi‑hour outage on October 29, 2025 after an inadvertent configuration change to Azure Front Door (AFD)—the company’s global edge and application‑delivery fabric—knocked Microsoft‑hosted and customer‑fronted services offline, forcing...

Microsoft’s cloud suffered a high‑visibility disruption on Wednesday afternoon UTC when an apparent configuration error in Azure Front Door — Microsoft’s global edge and content delivery fabric — knocked a broad swath of Azure‑fronted services offline, producing real‑world outages for airlines...

The internet’s backbone flickered twice in quick succession this autumn, and the world noticed: Amazon Web Services (AWS) suffered a major DNS-linked failure centered in its US‑EAST‑1 region on October 20, 2025, and Microsoft Azure experienced a broad outage tied to an Azure Front Door...

Microsoft’s cloud control plane hit a major snag on October 29 when an inadvertent configuration change in Azure Front Door (AFD) — Microsoft’s global Layer‑7 edge and content delivery fabric — triggered a cascading outage that knocked Microsoft 365, the Azure Portal, Xbox/Minecraft sign‑ins and...

Microsoft’s cloud platform experienced a sharp, high‑visibility outage on October 29–30, 2025 after an unintended DNS/routing configuration change to Azure Front Door (AFD) propagated across Microsoft’s global edge fabric. The error produced widespread name‑resolution and routing failures that...

The cloud that underpins much of Europe’s digital economy hiccuped again this week: a configuration error in Microsoft’s Azure Front Door knocked large parts of Azure and Microsoft 365 offline on October 29, and — coming barely a week after a widespread AWS disruption — reignited a familiar...

Microsoft’s cloud spine briefly buckled on October 29, 2025, when an inadvertent configuration change to Azure Front Door (AFD) — Microsoft’s global Layer‑7 edge and application delivery fabric — triggered a cascading global outage that left Azure, Microsoft 365, Xbox Live, Outlook, Copilot...

A large, synchronous failure inside Microsoft’s Azure cloud knocked key services offline on October 29, 2025, and — after hours of emergency mitigation work — engineers say the platform has been returned to normal operating levels following a rollback of an unintended Azure Front Door...

Microsoft's Azure cloud platform suffered a widespread outage on October 29, 2025, that traced back to a configuration error inside Azure Front Door (AFD) — Microsoft's global content delivery and routing service — and exposed how a single invalid configuration combined with a software...

Microsoft’s Azure platform suffered a high‑impact outage on October 29, 2025, after an inadvertent configuration change to Azure Front Door triggered DNS‑related failures that left thousands of businesses, games, productivity tools and consumer services intermittently unreachable — a stark...

A rare-but-terrifying alignment of cloud failures left millions offline and exposed a fragile truth about modern internet architecture: when Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure hiccup, winners and victims alike can be anyone who depends on the cloud — from global banks and airlines to...

Microsoft's cloud spine briefly buckled on October 29, 2025, when a configuration change tied to Azure Front Door (AFD) triggered a cascading outage that interrupted a wide swath of Microsoft services — from Microsoft 365 Copilot and admin portals to consumer staples like Minecraft and Xbox...

Microsoft’s Azure platform and a broad swath of dependent services were restored after a major global outage that began on the afternoon of October 29 and persisted into the early hours of October 30, with engineers tracing the disruption to a misapplied configuration change in Azure Front Door...