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’s productivity cloud stumbled again, but this time the interruption was short, diagnosable and — crucially — tied to the company’s edge networking fabric rather than a failure inside Office apps themselves.
Background: what happened, in plain terms
On Thursday, a subset of Microsoft...