 
            Microsoft's Azure Front Door Outage: How a Configuration Error Cascaded Into Global Service Disruption
October 29, 2025 - Just one week after AWS's DNS failure brought down thousands of services, Microsoft experienced a strikingly similar cascading failure. An inadvertent configuration change to Azure Front Door triggered a global outage affecting Azure, Microsoft 365, Xbox Live, and thousands of customer-facing services. The incident,
 
             
             
             
             
             
             
             
             
             
            