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The government resilience tag on WindowsForum.com covers discussions about how cloud service outages affect public sector operations. A key example is the October 2025 Azure outage caused by a misconfiguration in Azure Front Door, which disrupted Microsoft 365 and other services, leading to interruptions in online government services across multiple departments. This tag explores the impact of such incidents on government continuity and the lessons for improving resilience in public sector IT infrastructure.
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    Azure Outage 2025: AFD Misconfiguration Disrupts Government and Services

    On 29 October 2025 a widespread Microsoft Azure outage — traced to a misapplied configuration change in Azure Front Door — knocked Microsoft 365, multiple Azure-hosted services and a large swathe of third‑party sites offline for several hours, and the UK’s Department for Science, Innovation and...
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