dns failures

The internet flickered — and for millions of users and hundreds of thousands of downstream services, it briefly went dark: a cluster of control‑plane and edge failures in late 2025 exposed how modern applications still ride on a handful of fragile primitives such as DNS, global edge routing and...

The internet’s plumbing is creaking louder: in the space of a few weeks a trio of high‑profile outages knocked huge swaths of services offline, and the pattern exposes a deeper fault line in how the modern web is built, operated and regulated. Background / Overview The past two months have...

A rare alignment of failures across three of the world’s largest infrastructure providers reduced large swathes of the public internet to error pages and timeouts in the autumn of 2025, exposing how control‑plane failures — not just attacks or capacity shortages — can cascade into global outages...

Microsoft’s cloud fabric suffered a catastrophic, broadly scoped disruption on 29 October 2025 that knocked Azure Front Door (AFD) and related network/control-plane infrastructure offline, producing cascading outages across Microsoft 365, the Azure Portal, Xbox/Minecraft sign‑in flows and many...

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...

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...

For the second time in recent weeks, major cloud infrastructure faults have demonstrated how concentrated, globally distributed cloud platforms can cascade into large-scale outages that stop businesses, governments and consumers in their tracks. Background In October, multiple high-profile...

A widespread Microsoft DNS failure and Azure Front Door configuration error knocked large swathes of Microsoft Azure, Microsoft 365, Xbox, and numerous customer sites offline on October 29, producing hours of global disruption to portal access, authentication flows and public-facing web services...

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...

The past few weeks have turned into a crash course in how fragile our always‑on internet actually is: separate, high‑profile failures at Vodafone (and other telcos), a major Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage on October 20 that knocked hundreds of sites offline, and a wide‑ranging Microsoft Azure...

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...

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...

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...

Nine days after a high‑impact AWS outage, Microsoft’s Azure and Microsoft 365 environments suffered a separate, global degradation that again exposed how tightly the internet and public services are bound to a handful of hyperscalers—and why that concentration now reads like a strategic risk for...

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...

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)...

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...

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...

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...

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...