Cloud Chaos: Azure Outage Hits Microsoft 365 and Xbox Just Days After AWS Failure

Cloud Chaos: Azure Outage Hits Microsoft 365 and Xbox Just Days After AWS Failure reports that Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform experienced a widespread disruption shortly after last week’s AWS outage, affecting Microsoft 365, Xbox, and Minecraft. The incident peaked around 12:00 p.m. Eastern Time on 29 October, with Azure’s Service Status page noting the issue at roughly the same moment. In a status update at 3:57 p.m.

ET, Microsoft said it had begun deploying the “last known good configuration” and that customers were starting to see early signs of recovery, while engineers rerouted traffic to healthy nodes. The company anticipated full restoration by 6:20 p.m. ET. A Microsoft spokesperson stated that they were working diligently to resolve the issue affecting Azure Front Door and urged customers to monitor service health notifications, with updates on the Azure Service Status page. The piece notes that, while the outage appears less severe than the prior AWS disruption, it underscores the risks of relying on a single cloud provider.