{"id":21945,"date":"2025-10-30T06:49:20","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T06:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/30\/microsoft-azure-outage-affects-thousands-of-users-heres-what-the-company-said-tech-news\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T06:49:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T06:49:20","slug":"microsoft-azure-outage-affects-thousands-of-users-heres-what-the-company-said-tech-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/30\/microsoft-azure-outage-affects-thousands-of-users-heres-what-the-company-said-tech-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Azure Outage Affects Thousands Of Users: Here\u2019s What The Company Said | Tech News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"story-9668664\">\n<p><span class=\"jsx-395e0e0beb19cb6e jsx-4143937483\">Last Updated:<\/span><time class=\"jsx-395e0e0beb19cb6e jsx-4143937483\">October 30, 2025, 12:06 IST<\/time><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"asubttl-9668664\" class=\"jsx-c9f81425ec968c48 jsx-1403635931 asubttl-schema\">Microsoft Azure systems were down for a long time this week and this affected thousands using Outlook and other services.<\/h2>\n<div class=\"jsx-cc1b15cf85effb8b artsharwrp\"><a href=\"https:\/\/news18.co\/gnps-en-btn\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"jsx-91f4da8d48c13a79 gglebtn bgprpl\"\/><\/p>\n<div id=\"artshare\" class=\"jsx-cc1b15cf85effb8b artshare\">\n<div class=\"jsx-cc1b15cf85effb8b stickdiv\">\n<div class=\"jsx-cc1b15cf85effb8b deskwrapstkdiv\">\n<div class=\"jsx-cc1b15cf85effb8b fontchange\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.news18.com\/dlxczavtqcctuei\/news18\/static\/images\/english\/font.svg\" height=\"30px\" width=\"30px\" alt=\"font\" title=\"font\" class=\"jsx-cc1b15cf85effb8b lazyload\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<figure class=\"jsx-c9f81425ec968c48 jsx-1403635931 amimg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Microsoft Azure outage took down half of the internet for millions\" title=\"Microsoft Azure outage took down half of the internet for millions\" src=\"https:\/\/images.news18.com\/ibnlive\/uploads\/2021\/07\/1627283897_news18_logo-1200x800.jpg?impolicy=website&amp;width=400&amp;height=225\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"jsx-c9f81425ec968c48 jsx-1403635931\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Microsoft Azure outage took down half of the internet for millions<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p id=\"0\" class=\"story_para_0\"><span style=\"font-weight:400\">Microsoft Azure faced a massive outage between October 29 and October 30 with many businesses in the US unable to run their operations for hours and waiting for the company to fix the issue. People were not able to access their workflow setup, authentication of tools and even the most important 365 admin center, which invariably got Microsoft in a huddle to get the systems back up and running at the earliest.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"1\" class=\"story_para_1\"><span style=\"font-weight:400\">The outage was tracked widely by platform Downdetector which saw a massive spike in reports from 9:23 PM IST on October 29 going well past the hour and waiting for the company to give some updates on the problem.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"2\" class=\"story_para_2\"><span style=\"font-weight:400\"><strong>Azure Outage Disrupts Half Of The Internet<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"3\" class=\"story_para_3\"><span style=\"font-weight:400\">The outage tracker cited issues with the Azure website, server connections as well as the domains running on its network. Microsoft also relies on Azure to run its own Microsoft 365 and Outlook services that were also hugely affected across the US, India and other regions for many hours this week.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"4\" class=\"story_para_4\"><span style=\"font-weight:400\"><strong>Microsoft Azure Outage: What Caused It?<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"5\" class=\"story_para_5\"><span style=\"font-weight:400\">Microsoft shared the details for the Azure outage which it claims lasted for around 8 hours, one of its biggest cyber issues since the Crowdstrike Windows 10 outage last year. The company said the latest outage was a result of a configuration error in the Azure Front Door which is its global traffic management system.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"6\" class=\"story_para_6\"><span style=\"font-weight:400\">The issues with the system meant that logins were not responding to the server requests which made it impossible for users to access their credentials and accounts during the period. The engineers at Microsoft were able to fix the issue by switching to the default state but even that took a toll on the systems rebooting back and becoming functional again.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"7\" class=\"story_para_7\"><span style=\"font-weight:400\">Microsoft needs Azure to power most of its customers and when the backbone of these businesses face issues, all of them come to a standstill. We\u2019ve seen it happen recently with the AWS outage at Amazon which even saw people stuck with their smart home devices not working, let alone the regular business and shops. <\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"jsx-95088aad1b3c53cd atawrap\">\n<div class=\"jsx-95088aad1b3c53cd atadetailwrp\">\n<div class=\"jsx-95088aad1b3c53cd ataname\"><span class=\"jsx-95088aad1b3c53cd atthumb\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"jsx-95088aad1b3c53cd\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"S Aadeetya\" title=\"S Aadeetya\" src=\"https:\/\/images.news18.com\/ibnlive\/uploads\/2023\/11\/aadeetya-3-2023-11-9de48efa65a9ed8ed13a8932cadb6d5a.jpg?impolicy=website&amp;width=60&amp;height=60\" class=\"jsx-95088aad1b3c53cd\"\/><\/figure>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"jsx-95088aad1b3c53cd attitle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.news18.com\/byline\/s-aadeetya-21044.html\" class=\"jsx-95088aad1b3c53cd atamail\">S Aadeetya<\/a><\/p>\n<p>S Aadeetya, Special Correspondent at News18 Tech, accidentally got into journalism 10 years ago, and since then, has been part of established media houses covering the latest trends in technology and helping fr&#8230;<span class=\"jsx-95088aad1b3c53cd aurpdebtn\">Read More<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>S Aadeetya, Special Correspondent at News18 Tech, accidentally got into journalism 10 years ago, and since then, has been part of established media houses covering the latest trends in technology and helping fr&#8230;<!-- --> <span class=\"jsx-95088aad1b3c53cd aurpdebtn\">Read More<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"jsx-c9f81425ec968c48 jsx-1403635931 atbtlink Location\"><span>Location :<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Redmond, Washington State, USA<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"jsx-c9f81425ec968c48 jsx-1403635931 atbtlink fp\"><span>First Published:<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"rs\">\n<p>October 30, 2025, 12:06 IST<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"jsx-c9f81425ec968c48 jsx-1403635931 brdcrmb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.news18.com\/\">News<\/a>  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.news18.com\/tech\/\">tech<\/a>  <span class=\"brdout\"> Microsoft Azure Outage Affects Thousands Of Users: Here\u2019s What The Company Said<\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"coral-wrap\" class=\"jsx-ba4d8f086a12294f \">\n<div class=\"jsx-ba4d8f086a12294f coral-cont\">\n<div class=\"jsx-ba4d8f086a12294f coltoptxt\">Disclaimer: Comments reflect users\u2019 views, not News18\u2019s. 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