identity platform

Microsoft’s cloud backbone stumbled mid‑day on October 29, 2025, when an inadvertent configuration change to Azure Front Door — the global edge and traffic‑routing fabric that fronts many Microsoft services and thousands of customer sites — triggered widespread latencies, authentication failures...

Microsoft’s cloud and consumer ecosystems suffered a wide-reaching disruption on October 29, 2025, when a configuration-related failure in Azure’s global edge fabric left Microsoft 365, Outlook, the Azure Portal, Xbox authentication flows and thousands of third‑party sites intermittently...