Microsoft Azure Outage 2025
Microsoft reports that the Azure outage is being fixed and that recovery will occur in a few hours.
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A few hours prior to the company’s planned quarterly results announcement, Microsoft encountered an outage in its Azure and 365 services.
The business stated on its status page:
“We are looking into a problem with Azure Portal that might be making it difficult for users to access the portal.”
On Wednesday, just before the presentation of its quarterly financial results, Microsoft experienced an outage in its Azure cloud and 365 services.
Social media users complained about having trouble accessing websites and services that were powered by Microsoft products. Additionally unavailable were other of the company’s websites, such as those for Xbox and investor relations. Downdetector claims that problems started at approximately 11:40 a.m. ET.
In an email statement, a Microsoft representative stated:
“We are attempting to resolve a problem with Azure Front Door that is affecting certain services’ availability. The Azure status page has the most recent information on this problem, and customers should keep an eye on their Service Health Alerts.
The following was added by the Azure support account on X (previously Twitter):
“We are looking into a problem that is impacting multiple Azure services. Clients may encounter difficulties obtaining services.
The most recent information on Azure’s status page indicates that the issues with AFD (Azure Front Door) started at 12:00 ET and could result in errors, timeouts, and delay for users of Microsoft services and customers.
The business stated that it is restoring AFD services to their most recent known good state and that the cause was most likely a “inadvertent configuration change.”
Recovery is anticipated around 7:20 p.m. ET, according to Microsoft.
Microsoft Azure Outage 2025
Additionally, the business wrote:
“As an interim solution, customers may also think about using Azure Traffic Manager to temporarily redirect traffic from Azure Front Door to their origin servers, even though we are seeing signs of recovery and have an estimated timeline.”
The services are “experiencing downstream impacts due to the ongoing Azure outage,” according to Microsoft’s 365 status account.
A little more than a week has passed since Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced a significant outage that brought down numerous websites. AWS reported on October 20 that it had noticed “increased error rates” when users attempted to start new instances in EC2, its well-known cloud service that offers virtual server capacity.
With a 32% market share, AWS dominates the cloud infrastructure space, followed by Azure (23%), and Google Cloud (10%), according to Canalys. Due to an increase in AI workloads, Azure and Google Cloud have both been expanding quickly recently.
This week, all three businesses are scheduled to release their quarterly results. Microsoft and Alphabet, the parent company of Google, will do so on Wednesday, while Amazon will do so on Thursday.
Due to a number of Alaska and Hawaiian Airlines services being hosted on Azure, Alaska Airlines reported Wednesday afternoon that it is currently “experiencing disruptions to key systems,” including its websites. Last year, Alaska successfully paid $1.9 billion to acquire Hawaiian Airlines.
Over the course of a weekend in March, Microsoft had an outage that prevented tens of thousands of users from accessing their Outlook email accounts and other applications.
Microsoft Azure Outage 2025: Services Disrupted, Recovery Expected Soon
