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

https://downdetector.ca/status/windows-azure/

https://azure.status.microsoft/en-gb/status

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amaccuish 10/29/2025|

Seeing users having issues with the "Modern Outlook", specifically empty accounts. Switching back to the "Legacy Outlook" which functions largely without the help of the cloud fixes the issue. How ironic.

tyfon 10/29/2025||

Seems to be down in Norway.

Even the national digital id service is down.

hexbin010 10/29/2025|

> Even the national digital id service is down.

Can't help but smirk as my country is ramming through "Digital ID" right now

bombcar 10/30/2025||

Someone somewhere thought that "national digital ID service" should absolutely rely on a cloud provider in and from another country.

What a time to be alive.

Steven_Vellon 10/29/2025||

For us, it looks like most services are still working (eastus and eastus2). Our AKS cluster is still running and taking requests. Failures seem limited to management portal.

mythz 10/29/2025||

High availability is touted as a reason for their high prices, but I swear I read about major cloud outages far more than I experience any outages at Hetzner.

prmoustache 10/29/2025||

I think the biggest features of the big cloud vendors is that when they are down, not only you but your customers and your competitors usually have issues at the same time so everybody just shrug and have a lazy/off day at the same time. Even on call teams reall just have to wait and stay on standby because there is very little they can do. Doing a failover can be slower than waiting for the recovery, not help at all if outage is spanned accross several region, or bring aditional risks.

And more importantly nobody lose any reputation except AWS/Azure/Google.

zavec 10/29/2025||

It's like back in school when there was a snow day!

graemep 10/29/2025|||

Ostensible reason.

The real reason is that outages are not your fault. Its the new version of "nobody ever got fired for buying IBM" - later it became MS, and now its any big cloud provider.

jmaker 10/29/2025|||

For one it’s statistics - Hetzner simply runs far fewer major services than hyperscalers. And the services they run are also more affluent, with larger customer bases, so downtimes are systemically critical. Therefore it’s louder.

On the merits though, I agree, haven’t had any serious issues with Hetzner.

bad_haircut72 10/29/2025|||

Same with DigitalOcean. I run one box and it hasnt gone down for like 2 years

yabones 10/29/2025|||

DO has been shockingly reliable for me. I shut down a neglected box almost 900 days uptime the other day. In that time AWS has randomly dropped many of my boxes with no warning requiring a manual stop/start action to recover them... But everybody keeps telling me that DO isn't "as reliable" as the big three are.

ipdashc 10/29/2025||||

To be fair, in the AWS/Azure outages, I don't think any individual (already created) boxes went down, either. In AWS' case you couldn't start up new EC2 instances, and presumably same for Azure (unless you bypass the management portal, I guess). And obviously services like DynamoDB and Front Door, respectively, went down. Hetzner/DO don't offer those, right? Or at least they're not very popular.

robotnikman 10/29/2025|||

Same here, I run a few droplets for personal projects and never had any issues with then.

bongodongobob 10/29/2025||

It's just the admin portal.

12_throw_away 10/29/2025|||

Nope, more than the portal. For instance, I just searched for "Azure Front Door" because I hadn't heard of it before (I now know it's a CDN), and neither the product page itself [1] nor the technical docs [2] are coming up for me.

[1] https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/frontdoor

[2] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/frontdoor/front-door...

NDizzle 10/29/2025||||

It's absolutely not only the admin portal.

It's CDN and FrontDoor at least.

bongodongobob 10/29/2025||

Interesting, everything else is working just fine for us. Offices across the US.

Jarwain 10/29/2025||

Do you use on front door? Our VMs that don't are working fine, but our app services that do aren't.

out_sider 10/29/2025||

we use front door (as does miccrosoft.com) and our website was down, I was able to change the DNS records to point directly to our server and will leave it like that for a few hours until everything is green

Foobar8568 10/29/2025||||

Plenty of sites are down and/or login not available. It's just really a mess.

pocketman 10/29/2025||||

It looks like it is just the 365 admin panels for us. Admittedly, we don't currently host any other services on Azure though.

_vqpz 10/29/2025|||

The bank I work at is reporting all Power Apps applications are down.

reid 10/29/2025||

This is impacting the Azure CDN at azureedge.net. DNS A records for azureedge.net tenants are taking 2-6 seconds and often return nothing.

etyhhgfff 10/29/2025|

It's always DNS, unless it's not DNS.

jmspring 10/30/2025||

The outage was really weird. For me, parts of the portal worked, other parts didn't. I had access to a couple of resource groups, but no resources visible in those groups. Azure Devops Pipelines that needed do download from packages.microsoft.com didn't work.

The Microsoft status page mostly referenced the portal outage, but it was more than that.

bombcar 10/30/2025|

I hate these failures because you end up with things that keep working fine because the login credentials are cached, etc; but if you restart or otherwise refresh, you're doomed.

AdmiralAsshat 10/29/2025||

Some exec at Microsoft told the Azure guys to ape everything Amazon does and they took it literally.

Telemakhos 10/29/2025||

Or, the NSA needed to upgrade their access at both.

embedding-shape 10/29/2025||

Do Microsoft still say "If the government has a broader voluntary national security program to gather customer data, we don't participate in it" today (which PRISM proved very false), or are they at least acknowledging they're participating in whatever NSA has deployed today?

terminalshort 10/29/2025||

PRISM wasn't voluntary. Also there are 3 levels here:

1. Mandatory

2. "Voluntary"

3. Voluntary

And I suspect that very little of what the NSA does falls into category 3. As Sen Chuck Schumer put it "you take on the intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you"

cruffle_duffle 10/29/2025||

“Voluntold”

jrochkind1 10/29/2025|||

I was gonna say that obv AWS hacked em to even things up.

dboreham 10/29/2025||

This is funny but also possibly true because: business/MBA types see these outages as a way to prove how critical some services are, leading to investors deciding to load up on the vendor's stock.

alt227 10/29/2025||

I may or may not have been known to temporarily take a database down in the past to make a point to management about how unreliable some old software is.

aftbit 10/29/2025||

I still can't log into Azure Gov Cloud with

https://microsoft.com/deviceloginus

Seems like they migrated the non-Gov login but not the Gov one. C'mon Microsoft, I've got a deadline in a few days.

mystcb 10/29/2025||

Updated 16:35 UTC

Azure Portal Access Issues

Starting at approximately 16:00 UTC, we began experiencing DNS issues resulting in availability degradation of some services. Customers may experience issues accessing the Azure Portal. We have taken action that is expected to address the portal access issues here shortly. We are actively investigating the underlying issue and additional mitigation actions. More information will be provided within 60 minutes or sooner.

This message was last updated at 16:35 UTC on 29 October 2025

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Azure Portal Access Issues

We are investigating an issue with the Azure Portal where customers may be experiencing issues accessing the portal. More information will be provided shortly.

This message was last updated at 16:18 UTC on 29 October 2025

-- From the Azure status page

jammo 10/30/2025|

We all need to move away from these big cloud providers. Two medium size smaller providers is enough.

-Cloudflare for R2 (object storage) and CDN (Fastly+backblaze also available). -Two VPS/Server providers with a decent reputation and mid-size (using a comparison site like https://serversearcher.com or look directly into people like Hetzner or latitude) -PlanetScale or Neon for database if you don't co-locate it, though better to use someone like digital ocean, vultr or latitude who offer databases too)

dspillett 10/30/2025||

> We all need to move away from these big cloud providers.

But then who do we blame when things are down? If we manage our own infrastructure we have to stay late to fix it when it breaks instead of saying “sorry, Microsoft, nothing we can do” and magically our clients accepting that…

blcknight 10/30/2025||

Ah yes, let's put our multibillion dollar ecommerce site on... checks notes Hetzner.

Lol

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