Microsoft’s global cloud fabric tripped in the mid‑afternoon UTC window on October 29, triggering a wide‑reaching Azure outage that left Heathrow check‑in kiosks and dozens of consumer and enterprise services — notably Xbox, Minecraft and Microsoft 365 — intermittently or wholly unreachable for...
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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...