Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform experienced widespread disruptions beginning Wednesday morning, impacting services ranging from online gaming to airline operations. The outage, stemming from “an unintentional configuration change” according to Microsoft, has affected users globally and follows a major AWS outage just one week prior.
Azure, the world’s second-largest cloud provider, plays a critical role in modern digital infrastructure. These disruptions highlight the increasing reliance on cloud services and the potential for cascading effects when major platforms falter. The incident underscores the vulnerability of businesses and consumers to outages at these central hubs of online activity, and raises questions about redundancy and resilience in cloud computing.
Microsoft reported that customers and services utilizing Azure Front Door (AFD) were encountering issues including latency, timeouts, and errors.The Dutch railway company NS confirmed its online ticketing system was affected, as reported by RTL Netherlands. in the United States, Alaska Airlines reported disruptions to flight booking and boarding pass printing via X, responding to customer complaints.
Downdetector registered thousands of reported issues for online gamers using Minecraft and Microsoft’s xbox platform. Microsoft’s official 365 Status account on X acknowledged the problems, directing users to the Service Health Dashboard for updates under MO1181369.
