Microsoft outage appears to be over

Today’s lengthy Azure outage appears to have finished.

A Microsoft dashboard showing the cloud service’s health was reporting no active incidents as of Wednesday evening.

The same portal previously showed engineers rolling out fixes to patch up the cloud service, as the outage appeared to snare travel sites, consumer apps, and gaming services.

We’ve reached out to Microsoft for more information.

Josh Marcus30 October 2025 00:50

Microsoft stock falls in after-hours trading

Throughout the day, Microsoft stock held relatively steady, despite the ongoing Azure outage, with shares falling about one tenth of one percent.

However, in overnight trading, things got worse, and shares fell by about 3.76 percent as of Wednesday evening, according to Yahoo! Finance.

Josh Marcus30 October 2025 00:22

Microsoft pushes back recovery time by an hour

Just when you thought it was over, the Azure outage may last a bit longer than planned.

The company previously estimated that full mitigation of problems on the platform would’ve occurred about half an hour ago.

Now, it has revised that estimate, and the company says it will require about 40 more minutes for its technical fixes to fully take effect.

“We have revised our mitigation time and are currently tracking toward full mitigation by 00:40 UTC on 30 October 2025, though we will communicate if mitigation is achieved sooner,” the Azure status page reads.

Josh Marcus29 October 2025 23:57

Issue reports taper off as Microsoft says a fix will take effect shortly

The Azure outage may be coming to a close.

Users across a variety of applications were reporting far fewer problems throughout Wednesday evening on applications like the Xbox Network, Microsoft 365, Minecraft, and Outlook, according to crowd-sourced data on Downdetector.

The decline in reports could simply be a factor of consumers reporting their issues once then resuming their days, or it could be a sign that the technical fixes Microsoft has been detailing to solve the problem are in fact taking effect.

Josh Marcus29 October 2025 23:42

'Strong signs' Microsoft outage could be resolved soon, company says

The Azure outage could soon be over, Microsoft says.

The company suggested in a web post that it’s expecting its technical fixes to kick in fully and mitigate the problem momentarily.

“We are seeing strong signs of improvement across affected regions and are tracking toward full mitigation by 23:20 UTC on 29 October 2025,” the company wrote.

Josh Marcus29 October 2025 23:20

Microsoft outage is a reminder of our fragile 'digital backbone,' expert says

The Amazon and Microsoft cloud outages in recent days are a warning sign.

Because so many organizations and companies rely on a handful of giant tech companies for key services like cloud computing, problems within one firm quickly radiate out onto the entire internet, according to Munish Walther-Puri, an adjunct faculty member at IANS Research and the former director of cyber risk for the city of New York.

“Organizations may think they’re insulated by their choice of cloud provider, but dependencies run deeper,” he told WIRED. “When key partners rely on other hyperscalers, exposure multiplies. As AI becomes the next layer of critical infrastructure, these outages demonstrate the brittleness of our digital backbone.”

Josh Marcus29 October 2025 22:53

Microsoft confirms which of its services have been hit in Azure breakdown

Microsoft has just released an in-depth breakdown on some of the main areas impacted in today’s Azure outage.

Here are the products they flagged: App Service, Azure Active Directory B2C, Azure Communication Services, Azure Databricks, Azure Healthcare APIs, Azure Maps, Azure Portal, Azure SQL Database, Container Registry, Media Services, Microsoft Defender External Attack Surface Management, Microsoft Entra ID, Microsoft Purview, Microsoft Sentinel, Video Indexer, and Virtual Desktop.

Users have also reported problems on Microsoft-affiliated platforms like Xbox Live, Minecraft, and Office 365.

Josh Marcus29 October 2025 22:30

How to monitor if your cloud provider is down

Online crowd-sourcing sites and social media can provide early warning about cloud outages, but the most reliable way to track the status of platforms like Microsoft’s Azure and Amazon’s AWS is through official company channels.

You can find the Azure dashboard here, and the AWS one here.

Josh Marcus29 October 2025 22:10

Amid outages, how the tech industry can mitigate the risks of relying on outside cloud providers

Recent cloud outages highlight the vulnerabilities of relying so much on cloud computing – or “the cloud” as it’s often called. But there are ways to mitigate some of the risks.

Here’s a piece from Jongkil Jay Jeong, written after last week’s Amazon outage, on what can be done.

Josh Marcus29 October 2025 21:50

How meme-makers are processing the Azure outage

The ongoing Microsoft Azure problems today may be causing technical issues at airports and popular websites, but that hasn’t stopped people from venting in memes.

Some riffed on the back-to-back timing of the Azure outage coming on the heels of problems last week with Amazon’s AWS, while others complained that they had access to Microsoft tech that was still functioning, forcing them to keep working when others got an unexpected break.

Josh Marcus29 October 2025 21:30