Tell HN: Azure outage

Posted by tartieret 10/29/2025

Azure is down for us, we can't even access the azure portal. Are other experiencing this? Our services are located in Canada/Central and US-East 2

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everfrustrated 10/29/2025|

GitHub runners (specifically the "larger" runner types) are all down for us. These are known to be hosted on Azure.

martijnvds 10/29/2025||

This probably explains why paying for street parking in Cologne by phone/web didn't work (eternal spinner) then

zbowling 10/29/2025||

Alaska Airlines is redircting folks to their slimmed down international site and you can't check in on mobile.

zaoui_amine 10/30/2025||

Language models aren't perfect; they can still generate similar outputs. Invertibility is a stretch.

altcognito 10/30/2025|

wrong thread

smithkl42 10/29/2025||

The iron law of uptime: "The mandatory single point of failure in every possible system is configuration."

baconbrand 10/29/2025||

Our Azure DevOps site is still functioning and our Azure hosted databases are accessible. Everything else is cooked.

jimmyl02 10/29/2025||

pretty interesting how datadog's uptime tracker (https://updog.ai/) says all the sites are fully available.

if that's true then it's a sign that Azure's control / data plane separation is doing it's job! at least for now

jonathanlydall 10/29/2025||

Our Azure hosted dotnet App Service is working fine, but our docs site served via Front Door went down. Can’t access anything through the Portal.

layer8 10/29/2025||

Maybe they need a downtime tracker. ;)

ycombinatornews 10/29/2025||

So that’s why CapitalOne is out today. Even though their (incorrect) status page says all systems operational.

glzone1 10/29/2025||

I remember the saying "It's always DNS". I'm old.

Kind of mindboggling it's still sometimes DNS maybe.

alt227 10/29/2025|

That saying is just as alive today as it ever was.

montague27 10/29/2025|

Guess when/who has the next outage!