cloud outages

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...

Alaska Airlines’ website and mobile app went dark on October 29, 2025, after a sweeping Microsoft Azure outage — traced to a configuration error in Azure Front Door — left passengers unable to check in online, access boarding passes, or manage bookings while airport staff reverted to manual...

The launch-day chaos that greeted The Outer Worlds 2 took an unexpected detour from design and balance debates to a very different kind of fragility: a Microsoft Azure outage that left Obsidian’s new RPG available on Steam and PlayStation 5, but temporarily impossible to buy or install for many...

Microsoft’s cloud backbone suffered a major outage on October 29, 2025, taking down large swaths of services across the company’s own product portfolio — including Microsoft 365, Xbox Live and Minecraft — and triggering cascading failures at airlines, retailers, banks and other businesses that...

Microsoft’s cloud backbone stumbled on Wednesday, knocking Azure-powered services — from Office 365 and Copilot to Xbox Live and multiple airline and retail systems — offline for large swathes of customers as engineers traced the break to a configuration and DNS problem within Azure Front Door...

Microsoft’s cloud fabric fractured in plain sight on Wednesday afternoon, producing a high‑visibility outage that knocked Azure‑fronted services — including Microsoft 365 web apps, the Azure management portal, Xbox storefronts and Minecraft authentication — into intermittent or full failure...

Amazon Web Services told the Houston Chronicle and other outlets it was "operating normally" after a fresh wave of outage reports on October 29, 2025 — a fast-moving development that landed against the backdrop of a far larger AWS regional failure just nine days earlier that exposed how a single...

Microsoft’s cloud fabric suffered a broad, high‑visibility disruption that left Microsoft 365, the Azure management portal, Xbox and many customer sites intermittently unreachable — an incident traced to failures in Azure Front Door and related edge/DNS routing that began on October 29, 2025 and...

Microsoft's cloud fabric hiccupped on Wednesday afternoon, knocking Microsoft 365, Xbox and Minecraft — and a raft of dependent services — offline for many users as Azure engineers raced to rollback an edge configuration and reroute traffic through healthy infrastructure. Background: what we...

A widespread Microsoft Azure outage on October 29, 2025 knocked Microsoft 365 services offline for millions of users worldwide, leaving Teams, Outlook on the web, the Azure Portal and Xbox authentication flows disrupted for several hours while Microsoft worked to roll back an inadvertent...

Microsoft’s cloud backbone faltered on October 29, 2025, when an Azure outage traced to a suspected inadvertent configuration change in Azure Front Door (AFD) disrupted Microsoft 365, the Azure management portal, Xbox and Minecraft authentication, and a raft of third‑party sites — including...

A widespread outage that knocked large swathes of Microsoft Azure and Microsoft 365 offline on October 29, 2025 began to ease after several hours of disruption, but the incident underscores deep operational and architectural risks for businesses that treat cloud providers as single points of...

Microsoft’s cloud fabric hit a major snag on October 29, 2025, when an Azure outage knocked users out of Teams, Outlook, Xbox, Microsoft Store and multiple admin portals — an incident traced to failures in Azure Front Door and related DNS/edge routing that produced cascading sign‑in and portal...

A widespread outage that knocked large swathes of Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform and Microsoft 365 productivity services offline on October 29, 2025 began to ease after several hours of global disruption, but the incident exposed persistent fragility in cloud-dependent business operations and...