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The Microsoft Azure Outage: What It Means for Cloud Hosting Reliability

Microsoft Azure cloud outage October 2025 showing error screens and system downtime affecting global businesses

On October 29, 2025, businesses around the world experienced something that shouldn’t happen with enterprise-grade cloud infrastructure: their systems went dark for over eight hours. The culprit? Microsoft Azure, one of the three largest cloud providers in the world. An inadvertent configuration change to Azure Front Door—their global content delivery system—triggered a cascade of failures […]