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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bragma 10/29/2025|

They suggest to use Traffic Manager to router around failing FrontDoor CDN, but DNS is failing too, making the suggestion another failure.

asciii 10/29/2025|

Yeah they're suggesting to use CLI but then my Frontdoor deployment failed. Welp.

buttscicles 10/30/2025||

Interesting that everybody knows when AWS goes down but Azure needs a "Tell HN" :)

Best of luck to the teams responding to this incident.

tartieret 10/30/2025|

I was a little puzzled as we got notified our apps were down, and then I tried to login in the Azure portal with no success. But the Azure status page reported no incident, so I posted here and quickly confirmed that others were impacted! They did a pretty bad job with their status page as the front door service was shown green all along

alt227 10/29/2025||

Microsoft have started putting customer status pages up on windows.net, so it must be really really bad!

For example when I try to log into our payroll provider Brightpay, it sends me here:

https://bpuk1prod1environment.blob.core.windows.net/host-pro...

reid 10/29/2025||

Portal and Azure CDN are down here in the SF Bay Area. Tenant azureedge.net DNS A queries are taking 2-6 seconds and most often return nothing. I got a couple successful A response in the last 10 minutes.

Edit: As of 9:19 AM Pacific time, I'm now getting successful A responses but they can take several seconds. The web server at that address is not responding.

m_fayer 10/29/2025||

And there goes https://www.microsoft.com/

eeasss 10/29/2025||

Deglobalization in geopolitics should be followed by deglobalization in cloud providers as well. Viva la local vendors.

chrisgeleven 10/29/2025||

"Front Door" has to be the worst product name for a CDN I've ever heard of. I used to work for a CDN too.

unethical_ban 10/29/2025||

I wonder if many Germans are eager to sign up for AFD.

But seriously I thought it would be the console, not a CDN.

jeffrallen 10/29/2025||

Front Door (tm), with Back Door access for the FBI included free with your subscription! ;)

oliyoung 10/29/2025|||

We should've never let marketing in the door honestly, all of the product names for the big three are awful.

Microsoft CDN

There, that's it. You're selling it to (hopefully) technical people

joquarky 10/29/2025||

It so strongly implies a counterpart.

FrostKiwi 11/2/2025||

Surprised to see the situation getting worse, what the hell.

Had some Frontdoor operations timing out, but now I'm straight up denied with "Message: All Changes to Azure Frondoor Configuration are blocked currently."

What a mess.

jacquesm 10/29/2025|

It is much more than azure. One of my kids needs a key for their laptop and can't reach that either. Great excuse though, 'Azure ate my homework'. What a ridiculous world we are building. Fuck MS and their account requirements for windows.

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