Is Microsoft Azure down?

On November 5, 2025, @Azure suffered an 11-hour storage outage in West Europe (right after the AWS one 😁). Not due to a bug, but because of cooling failure overheating the storage clusters. The portal stayed up but no one could create VMs, connect to databases, or scale AKS.

Everything is down — stocks, crypto, even Azure services are down too. WTF!

/Azure. Well , servers are down

The Venn Diagram of Microsoft Azure outage issues trending up and their removal of standard search services and instead implementing AI backed search is an almost perfect circle. At least the AWS outages that affected anyone I know were fixed quickly.

All 3 of the cloud foundations for apps and websites going down in a month is crazy. I couldn't play my Xbox because Azure was down, but i didn't have to do classwork when Google Cloud was down :D

When Azure stumbled, much of the web went dark. That’s the risk of concentration. @Filecoin’s global storage providers ensure no single outage can take the internet down.

There’s gotta be a building who’s sole purpose is to hold the entire internet inside it on a server that never shuts down… bc what happens if all of the cloud service provides (aws, oracle, azure) just shut down… where does everything go?

A global outage of Microsoft Azure, triggered by a misconfiguration in Azure Front Door, disrupted services worldwide, including critical systems for airlines, banks, and Microsoft's own services like Outlook and Teams, causing widespread latencies and connection errors.

AWS outage, Azure outage… is there something about to happen that they’re not telling us👀

Microsoft's cloud based Azure service was impacted by an outage caused by a backend configuration change. The failure affected a wide range of cloud-based websites and services including Microsoft Office 365, Heathrow Airport, Alaska and Hawaiian Airlines.

AWS is down. Azure is down. Unfortunately, many people do not really understand what that means. So let’s break it down in simple terms. Before now, everyone owned their own bakery. They had to build the oven, hire staff to manage it, get security to protect it, and worry

Hi @grok what caused the Azure outage . Can you let us know

So airtel outage is not only here, not AWS not Azure Not airtel, juice...meen

Cloud Confidence Shaken: Another Major Outage Hits Microsoft Azure Text to Paste into LinkedIn: Here we go again. Just a week after AWS’s major outage, now it's Microsoft Azure facing its own headline-grabbing disruption—impacting 365, Xbox, Minecraft, and more. This isn’t just

First AWS outage, then Azure outage 9 days after. AWS outage was caused by DNS failure why Azure was as a result of wrong config file. OBSERVATION: AWS and Azure have been laying off experienced hands leading to some of these embarrassments. These hyper scale cloud

why medium is down, is it because of aws and azure are down?

Quick update from yesterday's Microsoft Azure outage: Services are now largely restored, though a few customers may still see intermittent issues. We appreciate your patience and are here to support any lingering issues. Please reach out if you need assistance. – The Online

🧵When Centralized Clouds Go Dark TL;DR: Azure went down. AWS went down before that. Both outages exposed how fragile centralized cloud infrastructure has become. Filecoin takes the opposite path, distributing data globally and verifying integrity through cryptographic proof.

Every major cloud outage eventually ends with the same line: “Turns out it was DNS.” 😅 #Azure #AWS #Outage

A major #Microsoft #Azure #outage disrupted services worldwide, affecting websites, cloud applications, and digital infrastructure across industries. The issue stemmed from a configuration error in Azure’s core systems, causing widespread outages for hours.

Update on the Azure outage - none of our products were affected, and everything has been working smoothly. Please let us know if you have been impacted in any way.

microsoft azure experiencing a widespread outage at the moment, last week it was AWS

After AWS, now AZURE also went down.

With the recent outage of AWS (and probably Azure too), k8s is becoming increasingly more important for multi-cloud deployment.

azure saw aws go down and decided to join in. #2uglytwins

Tell HN: Azure outage

When AWS Azure down, everything went down but not DownDetector. Where is DownDetector hosted??

🟢 Microsoft Outage Update – Oct 30, 00:05 UTC Azure Front Door (AFD) impact has been confirmed mitigated. Services across Azure, Microsoft 365, Teams & Outlook are stabilizing globally, including UAE, US & UK. Recovery continues. Monitor workflows and expect improved performance

Work was unreal today. That Microsoft azure outage was different

AWS outage last week, Azure this week. So, $10 bucks that Google Cloud goes down next week?? Too bad no one will know since nobody uses it.