Microsoft says a mishap during a DNS migration was behind a nearly two-hour Azure outage on May 2, between 19:43 and 22:35 UTC. The global incident impacted a whole range of Microsoft cloud services, ...

Microsoft has revealed the root cause of the recent outage affecting Azure, which lasted about an hour and was due to a surge in Domain Name System (DNS) requests coupled with a code defect. Users ...

Microsoft says users of its Azure cloud portal may be not be able to access Office 365, Minecraft or other services due to issues with its domain name system Wednesday 29 October 2025 16:57 GMT From ...

Microsoft has revealed that Thursday's worldwide outage was caused by a code defect that allowed the Azure DNS service to become overwhelmed and not respond to DNS queries.

The outage affected Microsoft 365, Xbox, Minecraft, and major companies, including Starbucks and Capital One. Azure services have recovered to over 98% availability, with full restoration expected by ...

Following the massive cloud outages at AWS and Azure, DNS was quickly identified as the scapegoat. This is too simplistic, according to Carsten Strotmann. On October 19 and 20, 2025, there was an ...