{"id":249615,"date":"2025-10-29T22:46:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T22:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/249615\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T22:46:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T22:46:08","slug":"microsoft-deploys-fix-for-azure-cloud-service-after-outage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/249615\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft deploys fix for Azure cloud service after outage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Microsoft has deployed a fix to address an outage of its Azure cloud portal, which left users unable to access Office 365, Minecraft and other services.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The tech company wrote on its Azure status page that a configuration change to its Azure infrastructure caused the outage and that a fix was being rolled out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Microsoft did not immediately respond to a request for comment, but the company acknowledged issues with its Azure Front Door, a global content and application delivery network, service on its status page and social media accounts.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2025-10-21\/amazon-web-services-aws-outage-explained\/105917274\" data-component=\"FullBleedLink\" class=\"RelatedCard_link__rsgR9 FullBleedLink_root__lTw_U interactive_focusContext__yRhc_ interactive_defaults__AKxUU FullBleedLink_showVisited__g3Xvz\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Why the AWS outage was such a big deal<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP RelatedCard_synopsis__cFwMW Typography_sizeMobile14__u7TGe Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">Millions of apps, websites and services rely on AWS, one of the world&#8217;s largest cloud computing platforms. Here&#8217;s what we know about the outage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">An outage like this can have a widespread impact because many sites and services use Microsoft&#8217;s cloud service.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">On Downdetector, a website that tracks online outages, users reported issues throughout the day with Office 365, Minecraft, XBox Live, Copilot, Costco, Starbucks, and many other services.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Alaska Airline wrote on its X account that the outage was at the heart of problems affecting its systems, including check-in services.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Microsoft&#8217;s Azure troubles came just hours before the company was set to release its quarterly earnings report.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The outage also came just over a week after a massive outage of Amazon&#8217;s cloud computing service, Amazon Web Services (AWS), which took down a broad range of online services, including social media, gaming, food delivery, streaming and financial platforms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">AWS <a class=\"Link_link__5eL5m ScreenReaderOnly_srLinkHint__OysWz Link_showVisited__C1Fea Link_showFocus__ALyv2\" href=\"https:\/\/aws.amazon.com\/message\/101925\/\" data-component=\"Link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">revealed in a lengthy statement<\/a> that a string of events triggered the outage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">It said the problems stemmed from a &#8220;latent defect&#8221; in what is known as the domain name system, or DNS.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">This prevented applications from finding the correct address for AWS&#8217;s DynamoDB API, a cloud database that stores user information and other critical data.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Amazon is the dominant provider of cloud computing services but Microsoft ranks second, ahead of Google, in most markets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">AP\/ABC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Microsoft has deployed a fix to address an outage of its Azure cloud portal, which left users unable&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":249616,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2574,64,63,23343,99,14920,2577,20582,105],"class_list":["post-249615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-amazon","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-azure","tag-business","tag-impact","tag-microsoft","tag-outage","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}