Microsoft Azure outage disrupts global carriers, communications, and services
By | Published: 2025-10-29 21:30:22 | Source: Digital Trends
If your business or everyday tools rely on cloud services like Azure or AWS, this outage is a stark reminder of how fragile “always connected” truly is.
Well, yeah, Microsoft’s cloud stuff, Azure, basically Face transplanted yesterday (Wednesday)Causing headaches for businesses, airlines and phone companies all over the world. Things eventually started to improve later in the day, but it was pretty chaotic for a while.
A site called Downdetectorwhich tracks when things go down online, said it received more than 18,000 complaints at the peak before subsiding with Microsoft is starting to fix things.
What broke it? Apparently, someone flipped the wrong switch — Microsoft called it a “configuration change” — in a key part of Azure called the “front door.” This thing is like a super highway to deliver content and applications quickly. When it crashed, it caused all sorts of errors and timeouts for anyone relying on it. until Microsoft’s own stuff like Microsoft 365 and Xbox I got hit.
People using Azure have also been unable to sign in to manage their stuff for some time, though Microsoft says this is mostly fixed now. However, some small pieces may remain wonky for a little longer.
The Reuters report also detailed Alaska Airlines experiencing website issues, and even Vodafone UK and Heathrow Airport encountered some hiccups.
Déjà vu? Another big cloud failure
Here’s the really crazy part: This is the second time in just one week that a major cloud service has gone down! Remember when Amazon’s AWS went down last week, shutting down Snapchat, Reddit, and billions of other sites?
Having these cascading elements really makes you wonder how robust this whole cloud thing is, considering that almost everything online runs on it these days.
Downdetector showed that Microsoft 365 issues also improved as the day went on, thankfully.
The cloud gives, and the cloud takes away
Look, cloud services like Azure and AWS are amazing. It enables companies to do extraordinary things and scale quickly. However, when they break, everything breaks.
It’s a sobering reminder of how highly dependent we are on a few big companies. One small mistake can unleash a global catastrophe. On the good side, Microsoft seems to be responding quickly, which may indicate that it is becoming more adept at dealing with these meltdowns. However, it is worrying that the entire digital world seems to be based on such a flimsy foundation.
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