Azure, Xbox and Outlook Suddenly Went Down
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Microsoft confirmed the Azure outage stemmed from a misconfiguration in its Front Door routing system, causing global service disruption
Two cascading disruptions tied to Azure Front Door updates left global users unable to access the Azure Portal, offering a case study in how cloud complexity and outdated APIs can turn maintenance into widespread downtime.
Hours later, numerous Microsoft Azure and end-user-facing services are still down, and it appears they'll be out for hours more.
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Azure Outage: Microsoft says issue identified; engineers rolling back changes and rerouting traffic
A widespread Microsoft Azure outage, caused by a DNS configuration change, has impacted numerous services including Microsoft 365 and Xbox. Microsoft is attempting to resolve the issue by rolling back the change and rerouting traffic to healthy infrastructure.