cloud resilience

Alaska Airlines and Hawaiian Airlines saw critical customer-facing systems disrupted on Oct. 29 after a widespread Microsoft Azure outage traced to an Azure Front Door configuration error, forcing airlines to fall back to manual processes and prompting renewed scrutiny of cloud dependency and...

A high‑visibility outage on October 29, 2025 knocked large swaths of Microsoft Azure — including Azure Front Door (AFD), Microsoft 365 web surfaces, Xbox Live, and thousands of customer sites — offline for hours, and the failure, which Microsoft attributed to an “inadvertent configuration...

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...

Microsoft’s Azure cloud suffered a widespread outage on October 29 that knocked Microsoft 365, Xbox, airline check‑in systems, and thousands of customer websites offline for hours before engineers rolled back a faulty Azure Front Door configuration and gradually rebalanced traffic to restore...

Microsoft’s cloud suffered a major outage on October 29, 2025 that left Microsoft 365, Xbox Live, the Azure management portal and thousands of customer websites intermittently unreachable for hours — a failure Microsoft attributes to an inadvertent configuration change in Azure Front Door (AFD)...

Microsoft’s cloud fabric hit a global snag that blanked sign‑ins, timed out checkouts and produced a livestream of memes across social media as engineers worked to roll back a change and bring services back online. Background / Overview The disruption began as a routing and DNS‑related...

A sweeping configuration failure in Microsoft’s global edge fabric on October 29, 2025, left Microsoft 365, the Azure Portal, Xbox Live, Minecraft, Microsoft Copilot and the Microsoft Store intermittently inaccessible for millions of users and caused hundreds of third‑party websites that rely on...

Microsoft’s cloud fabric suffered a major disruption beginning on October 29, 2025 (UTC) when an inadvertent configuration change to Azure Front Door (AFD) triggered DNS, routing and authentication failures that cascaded across Microsoft 365, Azure management surfaces, Xbox services and...

Alaska Airlines customers experienced disruptions to online check‑in and booking after a widespread Microsoft Azure outage took down parts of the carrier’s website and mobile app on October 29, 2025, a failure that underscores the operational and reputational risks airlines face when core...

Microsoft Azure suffered a widespread, multi-region outage on October 29, 2025, taking down a swath of Microsoft customer-facing services — from Microsoft 365 and Copilot to Xbox Live and Minecraft — and triggering recovery procedures that centered on rolling back Azure Front Door (AFD) to a...

Microsoft’s Azure cloud suffered a major, global outage on October 29, 2025, knocking customers offline and disrupting widely used services — including Microsoft 365 (Office 365), Outlook, Teams, Xbox Live and Minecraft — after a configuration-related failure in Azure’s edge routing fabric...

Microsoft’s cloud fabric suffered a high‑impact interruption that knocked Azure‑fronted web services — including Office 365 admin portals, Xbox/Minecraft authentication, and numerous customer websites — partially offline as engineers traced the root cause to a DNS/routing failure in Azure Front...

The mid‑afternoon collapse of Microsoft's Azure edge fabric knocked airline check‑in systems, retail apps and games offline and produced a blunt reminder: when cloud edge and identity layers hiccup, the visible damage is immediate, cross‑industry and costly. Alaska Airlines reported its website...

Microsoft’s cloud backbone faltered in mid‑afternoon UTC on October 29, 2025, producing a broad global outage that left Microsoft 365 portals, Xbox and Minecraft sign‑ins, and a raft of third‑party websites intermittently unreachable — a failure Microsoft attributed to problems in Azure Front...

Alaska Airlines’ online systems were knocked offline on October 29, 2025, when a sweeping Microsoft Azure outage — traced to a configuration error in Azure Front Door — disrupted the carrier’s websites, apps and a swath of airline and airport systems worldwide, snarling customer service...

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 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. Background / Overview...

Microsoft’s Azure cloud experienced a significant service disruption on Wednesday that left thousands of users temporarily unable to access the Azure Portal and, in some reports, affected Microsoft 365 services that depend on Azure infrastructure. Outage-monitoring platforms recorded large...

The October 20 AWS outage tore through the internet’s nervous system, leaving major apps, banks and government services intermittently offline and delivering a blunt reminder: modern digital infrastructure is fast, cheap and startlingly concentrated. Background On October 20, 2025, Amazon Web...

Amazon is set to eliminate roughly 30,000 corporate positions in a sweeping downsizing that would amount to nearly one in every ten office roles at the company, a move driven by aggressive cost cutting as Amazon accelerates investment in artificial intelligence and automation. Background...