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 . “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,” a statement from the company read.

Below, find out why Azure went down and the status of the service.

We’re investigating an issue impacting Azure Front Door services.

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