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Microsoft Azure Outage Disrupts Thousands of Customers Worldwide
29 Oct
Summary
- Microsoft investigating Azure Front Door service issues
- Outage impacts Office 365, Minecraft, Xbox Live, and other services
- Microsoft working to mitigate access problems and roll back to last known good state
Earlier today, on October 29, 2025, Microsoft acknowledged an ongoing outage affecting its Azure cloud platform and related services. The company stated that its teams are currently investigating issues with the Azure Front Door service, which is responsible for managing Microsoft's global content delivery network.
The outage has resulted in a loss of availability for numerous Microsoft services, including Office 365, Minecraft, Xbox Live, and Copilot. Microsoft 365 confirmed that it has identified portions of its internal infrastructure experiencing connectivity problems and is working to unblock these systems and redistribute traffic to support recovery.
According to Microsoft, the incident was triggered by an inadvertent configuration change. In response, the company has taken two concurrent actions: blocking all changes to the Azure Front Door services and disabling a problematic route, while also rolling back to their last known good state.
While Microsoft has redirected users away from the Azure Front Door to mitigate portal access issues, the company has not provided an estimated time for when the rollback will be completed. The widespread nature of the outage, which impacts so many popular Microsoft services, is likely to cause significant disruption for the tech giant's customers worldwide.
