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Microsoft’s cloud platform faltered for much of an evening this week, exposing brittle dependencies that ripple through retail, transport and public services and forcing British and European organisations to rethink how they buy and protect essential digital infrastructure. Background The...

Microsoft’s cloud spine briefly buckled on October 29, 2025, when an inadvertent configuration change to Azure Front Door (AFD) — Microsoft’s global Layer‑7 edge and application delivery fabric — triggered a cascading global outage that left Azure, Microsoft 365, Xbox Live, Outlook, Copilot...

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 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...

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...

Microsoft’s cloud suffered a high‑visibility disruption on Wednesday afternoon UTC when an apparent configuration error in Azure Front Door — Microsoft’s global edge and content delivery fabric — knocked a broad swath of Azure‑fronted services offline, producing real‑world outages for airlines...

Microsoft’s cloud backbone faltered on October 29, 2025, when a configuration error in Azure Front Door — Microsoft’s global edge and routing fabric — precipitated a broad Microsoft Azure outage that knocked Xbox Live, Minecraft authentication, Microsoft 365 admin portals and a raft of customer...

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...

Players and IT teams worldwide woke to a sudden, large-scale interruption of Microsoft services on October 29 — an Azure Front Door (AFD) disruption triggered by an inadvertent configuration change that produced timeouts, authentication failures, and cascading outages across Microsoft 365, the...

Microsoft’s Azure cloud suffered a major outage on October 29, 2025, knocking customers offline and disrupting high-profile services — including Microsoft 365 (Office 365), Minecraft, Xbox Live and multiple airline and retail systems — after problems with the company’s Azure Front Door edge and...

Microsoft’s cloud fabric suffered a sharp, highly visible disruption that left thousands of users unable to reach the Azure Portal and knocked authentication-dependent services — from Microsoft 365 admin consoles to Xbox/Minecraft sign‑ins — offline for hours while engineers scrambled to...

Microsoft's cloud productivity stack suffered a major disruption on October 9, 2025, when a cascading outage tied to Azure Front Door (AFD) left thousands of Microsoft 365 users — including those relying on Microsoft Teams, Exchange Online, admin portals and even some gaming services — unable to...

Microsoft Azure customers reported widespread trouble accessing the Azure Portal and other services on October 9, 2025, after Microsoft confirmed a capacity loss in Azure Front Door (AFD) that produced intermittent portal outages and downstream service degradation across parts of Europe and...