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Microsoft’s cloud platform suffered a widescale outage on October 29, 2025, that left thousands of customers and countless consumer services — from Microsoft 365 and Teams to Xbox, Minecraft, airline check‑ins and retail sites — facing failed sign‑ins, blank admin consoles and cascading timeouts...

Microsoft’s global cloud backbone experienced a high‑visibility disruption on October 29, 2025, when an inadvertent configuration change in Azure Front Door (AFD) — Microsoft’s global Layer‑7 edge and application delivery service — triggered routing, DNS and authentication failures that knocked...