cloud outages

Two high‑visibility cloud failures in October produced a familiar and uncomfortable spectacle: millions of users suddenly locked out of services they use every day — from Microsoft 365 and Minecraft to Snapchat and a raft of consumer apps — and companies scrambling to explain how a few lines of...

A broad Microsoft Azure outage on October 29 produced localized travel delays for Alaska Airlines and Hawaiian Airlines but — according to the carriers’ statements — did not force any flight cancellations, as airlines and cloud engineers worked through a staged rollback and temporary manual...

Microsoft’s cloud backbone began to stabilize hours after a global outage on October 29 that left Microsoft 365, the Azure Portal, gaming services and dozens of customer websites intermittently unreachable — an incident engineers traced to an inadvertent configuration change in Azure Front Door...

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...

Midday on Wednesday, October 29, thousands of organizations and consumers worldwide experienced a major disruption that left Microsoft Azure, Microsoft 365 admin surfaces, and a wide range of dependent services intermittently unavailable or sluggish — an incident Microsoft attributed to a...

Thousands of Microsoft customers worldwide woke to interrupted workflows and unreachable portals on October 29 after a configuration error in Microsoft’s edge network knocked Azure and Microsoft 365 services offline for hours, forcing emergency rollbacks, traffic failovers and a frantic scramble...

Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform suffered a high‑visibility global outage on October 29, 2025 after an inadvertent configuration change in Azure Front Door (AFD) caused widespread DNS, routing and authentication failures that cascaded through Microsoft 365, Outlook, Copilot, Xbox Live, and...

A widespread outage tied to an Azure Front Door configuration change knocked Microsoft Azure and a large swath of dependent services offline on October 29, 2025, forcing engineers into an emergency rollback while customers and critical industries scrambled to route around disrupted...

Amazon Web Services reported that it was “operating normally” after a fresh wave of outage reports on Wednesday, insisting that Downdetector spikes and social-media complaints did not reflect any active incidents on AWS systems — even as Microsoft simultaneously logged an Azure disruption tied...

Microsoft’s global cloud backbone experienced a high‑visibility disruption on October 29, 2025, when an inadvertent configuration change in Azure Front Door (AFD) — Microsoft’s global Layer‑7 edge and application delivery service — triggered routing, DNS and authentication failures that knocked...

Microsoft’s cloud and productivity ecosystems suffered a high‑impact disruption on October 29, 2025, when an inadvertent configuration change inside Azure’s global edge fabric — Azure Front Door (AFD) — triggered DNS and routing anomalies that left Microsoft Azure, Microsoft 365, Xbox/Minecraft...

Microsoft’s Azure outage on October 29 briefly knocked Alaska Airlines’ website and mobile app offline, compounding a week of severe technology problems for the carrier and underscoring how edge‑level cloud failures can produce immediate, real‑world disruption for airlines and their customers...

Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform suffered a widespread outage on October 29, 2025, that temporarily disrupted Microsoft 365, Xbox/Minecraft authentication, the Azure management portal and a raft of third‑party services after an inadvertent configuration change in the Azure Front Door control...

Microsoft’s engineers reported initial signs of recovery after a widespread Azure outage that began mid‑afternoon UTC on 29 October 2025 and knocked large swathes of Microsoft 365, Azure management surfaces and numerous customer sites offline while the company rolled back to a previously...

A large, synchronous failure inside Microsoft’s Azure cloud knocked customer-facing services offline across Europe and beyond on Wednesday, October 29, 2025, forcing airports, airlines, banks and gaming platforms to fall back to manual processes while engineers rolled back an unintended...

Alaska Airlines’ public-facing systems went dark on October 29 when a sweeping Microsoft Azure outage—traced by Microsoft to an inadvertent configuration change in its Azure Front Door service—left the carrier’s website and mobile app unavailable and forced airport staff to revert to manual...

Microsoft’s cloud backbone suffered a high‑visibility failure on October 29, 2025, when a configuration error in Azure’s global edge fabric left Microsoft 365, the Azure Portal, Xbox services and thousands of customer sites intermittently or wholly unreachable for hours, forcing a company‑wide...

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 backbone stumbled in the afternoon UTC window on October 29, 2025, knocking a broad swath of first‑party services and thousands of customer sites offline as engineers raced to contain a failure traced to Azure Front Door and related DNS/routing behaviour. This outage left...

Microsoft’s Azure cloud posted a startling 40% revenue gain in the July–September quarter, pushing the company’s overall quarterly revenue to $77.7 billion and beating Wall Street estimates — and the headline wins came on the very same day a widespread Azure outage disrupted services worldwide...