edge outage

The internet hiccup that briefly left millions asking “why is ChatGPT down?” is now a two‑part cautionary tale about how centralizing the web’s “front door” can magnify brief technical errors into wide, real‑time disruption — and how workers can keep projects moving by having reliable...

Short answer: no — as of November 19, 2025 Microsoft Copilot (the Microsoft 365–integrated assistant) is not experiencing a confirmed, global outage, but yesterday’s high‑profile edge disruption and a handful of localized failures have produced a surge of “Is Copilot down?” reports that merit...

Alaska Airlines’ decision to bring in an external auditor after a week of cascading IT failures marks a turning point in how airlines—and any large, legacy-dependent operators—must rethink resilience in a hyperscale cloud era. A sudden failure at the carrier’s primary data center triggered a...

On October 9, 2025, a short but high-impact disruption in Microsoft’s edge network left thousands of organizations with delayed mail, failed sign‑ins, and broken access to Microsoft 365 admin and Azure portals — a failure traced to capacity loss and a network misconfiguration in Azure Front Door...

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...