edge resilience

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...

Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform suffered a high‑visibility, multi‑hour outage on October 29, 2025 after an inadvertent configuration change to Azure Front Door (AFD)—the company’s global edge and application‑delivery fabric—knocked Microsoft‑hosted and customer‑fronted services offline, forcing...

Microsoft’s cloud control plane hit a major snag on October 29 when an inadvertent configuration change in Azure Front Door (AFD) — Microsoft’s global Layer‑7 edge and content delivery fabric — triggered a cascading outage that knocked Microsoft 365, the Azure Portal, Xbox/Minecraft sign‑ins and...

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...

Microsoft’s cloud backbone faltered on October 29, 2025, when an Azure outage traced to a suspected inadvertent configuration change in Azure Front Door (AFD) disrupted Microsoft 365, the Azure management portal, Xbox and Minecraft authentication, and a raft of third‑party sites — including...