2025 has seen quite a few technological glitches. Just a week after the global Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage wreaked havoc across multiple platforms, banks, and airlines, Microsoft ran into a problem on Wednesday, October 29, 2025. The company’s cloud computing platform, Azure, experienced an outage, and users expressed their frustration over the system error on social media.
Microsoft acknowledged the outage on Azure’s status page. The company stated:
> “Starting at approximately 16:00 UTC on 29 October, 2025, customers and Microsoft services leveraging Azure Front Door (AFD) may have experienced latencies, timeouts, and errors.”
### Is Microsoft Azure Still Down Today?
For some users, Microsoft Azure is still down at the time of publication. Outage reports on Downdetector peaked at over 20,000 around 12:00 p.m. ET and then decreased over the next few hours.
In the afternoon, Azure updated its status page with the following information:
> “We initiated the deployment of our ‘last known good’ configuration, which has now successfully been completed. Customers may have begun to see initial signs of recovery. We are currently recovering nodes and routing traffic through healthy nodes, and as we make progress in this workstream, customers will continue to see improvement. Customer configuration changes will remain temporarily blocked while we continue mitigation efforts. We will notify customers once this block has been lifted.”
Despite the restoration efforts, Azure warned customers that some issues might still persist. The company recommended:
> “Although we are seeing signs of recovery and have an estimated timeline, customers may also consider implementing failover strategies using Azure Traffic Manager to redirect traffic from Azure Front Door to their origin servers as an interim measure.”
### Are All Microsoft Servers Down Today?
No — but quite a few services were affected. Outlook and Xbox customers reported issues throughout the day, indicating that the outage impacted several Microsoft platforms.
### Why Did Microsoft Azure Have an Outage?
Azure clarified the cause of the outage:
> “We have confirmed that an inadvertent configuration change was the trigger event for this issue.”
As Microsoft works to fully resolve the problem, users are advised to monitor Azure’s official status page for the latest updates and consider interim measures to mitigate disruption.
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