Global Azure outage on Oct 29 after Front Door configuration change

Microsoft's Azure cloud platform suffered a global outage on October 29 that began about 1600 UTC and disrupted a wide range of services worldwide, knocking offline or slowing Microsoft 365 productivity tools, Xbox and Minecraft logins, airline websites and other business systems that rely on Azure Front Door. The incident left users unable to sign in, access portals and complete transactions across multiple industries until engineers began restoring service later in the day.

Crowdsourced outage tracker reports spiked within minutes of the first failures, with thousands of users flagging problems for Azure, Microsoft 365, Xbox, Minecraft and other downstream services. Companies that reported impacts included airlines, banks, retailers and public bodies; Hawaiian Airlines and Alaska Airlines said the outage affected portions of their online services and urged customers to use direct booking links or mobile apps, while Quebec health agency Santé Québec said some online patient platforms were temporarily unavailable. Voting at the Scottish Parliament was suspended after lawmakers could not use the chamber’s electronic voting system.

Microsoft said on its Azure status page that the...