Azure is down everywhere.
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- Microsoft Azure went down globally today.
- Microsoft’s customer-facing services were affected.
- Recovery is expected soon.
Last week, Amazon Web Services (AWS) shut down, and many of us were sad. This week, it’s Microsoft Azure’s turn to fall and rise, and once again, we’re very unhappy with it.
Microsoft says this latest Azure outage began around noon ET on October 29. however, downdetectorWhich, based on user reports, shows issues first reported around 11:40 a.m.
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As of 5:30 p.m. ET, Microsoft reported, “We began deploying our ‘last known good’ configuration, which has now successfully completed. We are currently recovering nodes and re-routing traffic through healthy nodes.”
However, don’t get too excited. We haven’t finished the work yet. Microsoft added, “As the recovery progresses, some requests may still arrive on unhealthy nodes, resulting in intermittent failures or reduced availability until more nodes are fully restored. This recovery effort includes reloading the configuration and balancing traffic across a large amount of nodes to restore full operational scale. The process is gradual by design, ensuring stability and preventing overloads while dependent services recover. We are impressed. Expect continued improvement in areas. “This means we expect recovery to occur by 23:20 UTC on October 29, 2025.”
That’s 7:30 pm Eastern Time.
Even if he is successful, other problems will persist for some time. Microsoft said, “Customer configuration changes remain temporarily blocked to prevent new deployments that could interfere with recovery. We will notify customers once this block is removed. If customers decide they can fail over to origin, they may fail over.”
The company added, “Customers may also consider implementing existing failover strategies Azure Traffic Manager will redirect traffic from Azure Front Door to their origin servers as an interim measure.” I should add, this is far from an easy solution. If your staff doesn’t have experience with Azure traffic routing, I would grit my teeth and wait for Azure to come fully back online.
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Unlike the AWS failure, which – while causing massive damage – was limited to a single region (AWS East), according to blue status As of 1:30 pm ET, all Azure regions were down.
We still don’t know what causes it. Microsoft said earlier today: “Starting at approximately 16:00 UTC, we began experiencing Azure Front Door (AFD) issues resulting in reduced availability of some services. We suspect that an inadvertent configuration change was the trigger event for this issue. We are taking two concurrent actions where we are stopping all changes to AFD services as well as rolling back to their last known good state.”
Which sites and services are affected?
Common people also felt the pain. Popular services like Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Intune for business users and Xbox Live and Minecraft for those just wanting entertainment have also been shut down. Others reported this Microsoft logins were also slowing down crawl speed Or failing altogether.
The following services are affected:
- Microsoft 365
- Microsoft Azure
- Microsoft Copilot
- Microsoft Entra
- Microsoft Store
- Microsoft Teams
- minecraft
- xbox
It’s been a bad day if you trust Microsoft.
Alaska Airlines faces disruptions To its critical internal systems, including its website and operational infrastructure. Vodafone in the UK and Heathrow airport were also reported to be affected by the outage.
Behind the scenes, Microsoft now reports that the following Azure services were affected: App Service, Azure Active Directory B2C, Azure Communication Services, Azure Databricks, Azure Healthcare API, Azure Maps, Azure Portal, Azure SQL Database, Container Registry, Media Services, Microsoft Defender External Attack Surface Management, Microsoft Entra ID, Microsoft Purview, Microsoft Sentinel, Video Indexer, and Virtual Desktop.
First, Ookla Telecom analyst Luke Kehoe said, “Microsoft Azure has knocked many services offline across the globe, with the scope of the explosion widespread across airlines, banks and government agencies. This is the second such incident this month, highlighting the systemic risks of concentration and single points of logical failure, no matter how physically hardened the infrastructure is.”
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He’s got a point. We rely heavily on AWS, Azure, and other cloud services, becoming single points of failure when pressure increases.
Anyhow, in its latest quarterly report, which came after the bell the same day, Microsoft reported that it beat Wall Street estimates and that Azure’s revenue increased by nearly 40%Yet, with this continued failure and Microsoft’s admission that it cannot meet AI and cloud demands, Microsoft’s stock fell in after-market trading.
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