{"id":970455,"date":"2025-10-30T10:18:37","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T04:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=970455"},"modified":"2025-10-30T10:18:37","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T04:48:37","slug":"microsoft-azure-down-what-caused-the-outage-which-services-are-affected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/10\/30\/microsoft-azure-down-what-caused-the-outage-which-services-are-affected\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Azure down: What caused the outage? Which services are affected?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft\u2019s cloud platform Azure experienced a major outage on Wednesday (October 29), disrupting access to several widely used services across the globe, including Office 365, Xbox Live, Minecraft, and Copilot.<\/p>\n<p>The issue stems from problems linked to Azure Front Door\u2014the infrastructure that routes traffic across Microsoft\u2019s cloud environment\u2014and its domain name system (DNS), which directs internet traffic by converting URLs into IP addresses. DNS failures can block users from reaching apps and cloud services entirely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft\u2019s cloud platform Azure experienced a major outage on Wednesday (October 29), disrupting access to several widely used services across the globe, including Office 365, Xbox Live, Minecraft, and Copilot. The issue stems from problems linked to Azure Front Door\u2014the infrastructure that routes traffic across Microsoft\u2019s cloud environment\u2014and its domain name system (DNS), which directs internet traffic by converting URLs into IP addresses. DNS failures can block users from reaching apps and cloud services entirely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-970455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=970455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=970455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=970455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=970455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}