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Posted by tartieret 10/29/2025

Tell HN: Azure outage

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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hedayet 10/29/2025|
The sad thing is - $MSFT isn't even down by 1%. And IIRC, $AMZN actually went up during their previous outage.

So if we look at these companies' bottom lines, all those big wigs are actually doing something right. Sales and lobbying capacity is way more effective than reliability or good engineering (at least in the short term).

locusofself 10/29/2025||
AMZN went up almost 4 percent between the day of the outage and the day after. Crazy market.
jlarocco 10/29/2025||
Because it shows how much lock-in they have.

You know nobody is migrating off of AWS or Azure because of these.

navane 10/29/2025|||
Look how important we are, is what these failures show
marcosdumay 10/29/2025|||
What do you mean? That IT isn't important for Microsoft and Amazon?

That's certainly not the right conclusion.

alt227 10/29/2025||
I think he was implying that those companies think they are so important that it doesnt matter they are down, they wont loose any customers over it because they are too big and important.
cyberax 10/29/2025||||
So we can look forward to "accidental" cloud outages just to show their importance?

I guess the GCP is next.

Arrath 10/29/2025|||
"They'll learn their lesson and be rock solid after this! I better invest now!"
bigstrat2003 10/29/2025|||
That's a good thing. Stock prices shouldn't go down because of rare incidents which don't accurately represent how successful a company is likely to be in the future.
AtNightWeCode 10/29/2025|||
I looked into this before and the stocks of these large corps simply does not move when outages happens. Maybe intra-day, I don't have that data, but in general no effect.
iamtheworstdev 10/29/2025||
well, at this point, 90% of the market cap of FAANGS plus Microsoft is... OMG AI LLM hype
vincebowdren 10/29/2025||
UK, and other regions too; our APAC installation in Australia is affected.
zimpenfish 10/30/2025||
"Microsoft Azure will serve as the backbone of Asda’s digital infrastructure"[0]

Oh, that'll be why Scan & Go was down yesterday evening. I thought it was another instance of an iOS 26 update breaking their crappy code.

[0] https://corporate.asda.com/newsroom/2025/22/09/asda-announce...

Sharparam 10/29/2025||
The learning modules on https://learn.microsoft.com/ also seem to have a lot of issues properly loading.
vpears87 10/29/2025||
At least MSFT is consistent: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/ is down as well
CommanderData 10/29/2025|
Likely behind Azure Front Door.

Much of Xbox is behind that too.

tartieret 10/29/2025||
Microsoft posted an update on X: https://x.com/AzureSupport/status/1983569891379835372?ref_sr...

"We’re investigating an issue impacting Azure Front Door services. Customers may experience intermittent request failures or latency. Updates will be provided shortly."

llama052 10/29/2025|
Always fun when you can't trust the main status page but have to go to some opinionated social medial website to see the actual problem.
drjasonharrison 10/29/2025||
https://www.cbc.ca/news/investigates/tesla-grok-mom-9.695693...

This mom’s son was asking Tesla’s Grok AI chatbot about soccer. It told him to send nude pics, she says

xAI, the company that developed Grok, responds to CBC: 'Legacy Media Lies'

progmetaldev 10/29/2025||
I was having issues a few hours ago. I'm now able to access the portal, although I get lots of errors in the browser console, and things are loading slowly. I have services in the US-East region.

I have been having issues with GitHub and the winget tool for updates throughout the day as well. I imagine things are pulling from the same locations on Azure for some of the software I needed to update (NPM dependencies, and some .NET tooling).

borg16 10/29/2025||
i guess folks in azure wanted to show some solidarity with aws brethren

(couldn't resist adding it. i acknowledge this comment adds no value to the discussion)

aurumque 10/29/2025|
Azure goes down all the time. On Friday we had an entire regional service down all day. Two weeks ago same thing different region. You only hear about it when it's something everyone uses like the portal, because in general nobody uses Azure unless they're held hostage.
Mr_Bees69 10/29/2025||
Yeah, im regretting my decision to buy an xbox now. Every once in a while, everything goes down.
glzone1 10/29/2025|
Wasn't the saying "It's always DNS" floating around somewhere?

Be interesting to understand cause here. Pretty big impact on services we use

mikestew 10/29/2025|
Could be DNS, I'm seeing SERVFAIL trying to resolve what look to be MS servers when I'm hitting (just one example) mygoodtogo.com (trying to pay a road toll bill, and failing).
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