Microsoft Azure faces outage, Starbucks, Minecraft among those affected | Top points
Posted on: Oct 30, 2025 00:19 IST | Posted by: Hindustantimes
Microsoft on tues suffered outages in its Azure cloud service, affecting a range of products and operations worldwide.
The Microsoft outage also led to service disruptions in Alaska Airlines and Heathrow Airport. Microsoft 365 said its services were experiencing a downstream impact related to the Azure outage.
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The disruptions come days after hours-long disruption at Amazon AWS, which led to global turmoil affecting thousands of sites and popular apps, including Snapchat and Reddit. While AWS leads the cloud computing market, Microsoft's Azure comes next, followed by Google Cloud.
Here is all you need to know about the Microsoft outage:
⦁ Azure, on its status page, said that starting around 16:00 UTC (9:30 pm IST), customers may have experienced problems accessing the Azure management portal and that it has taken action to mitigate the issue.
⦁ The number of users reporting issues with Azure was over 18,000 at around 9:40 pm (IST) and came down to 3,299 users as of 11 pm (IST), according to Downdetector.
⦁ The outage hit several websites and services, including Alaska Airlines, Vodafone in the UK and London's Heathrow Airport.
Also Read: Amazon Web Services faces outage again a week after going down
⦁ Internet users were unable to access Microsoft 365, Minecraft, Outlook, and several other Microsoft services for hours. Other major sites, including Starbucks, Costco and Kroger were also down.
⦁ The outage hit a service, called Azure Front Door, which acts as an entry point for web applications built atop the company’s servers, Bloomberg reported.
⦁ Azure, on its status page, said that an inadvertent configuration change led to the issue. "We have initiated the deployment of our 'last known good' configuration. This is expected to be fully deployed in about 30 minutes from which point customers will start to see initial signs of recovery," it said.
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