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Re: Tell HN: Azure outage

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Post by alt227 » Wed, Oct 29, 2025, 4:25 PM UTC

Cant access certain banking websites in the UK, I am assuming it because of this.

https://www.natwest.com/

Re: Tell HN: Azure outage

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Post by baconbrand » Wed, Oct 29, 2025, 4:25 PM UTC

Our Azure DevOps site is still functioning and our Azure hosted databases are accessible. Everything else is cooked.

Re: Tell HN: Azure outage

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Post by tyfon » Wed, Oct 29, 2025, 4:25 PM UTC

Seems to be down in Norway.

Even the national digital id service is down.

Re: Tell HN: Azure outage

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Post by llama052 » Wed, Oct 29, 2025, 4:25 PM UTC

Just another day with microsoft. Honestly pretty tiring as something is always generally broken.

Re: Tell HN: Azure outage

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Post by ZeroConcerns » Wed, Oct 29, 2025, 4:25 PM UTC

Oh, well, I'm sure Azure will be given the same pass that AWS got here recently when they had their 12-hour outage...

Re: Tell HN: Azure outage

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Post by charles_f » Wed, Oct 29, 2025, 4:27 PM UTC

patching-trowel wrote: post #19

As of now Azure Status page still shows no incident. It must be manually updated, someone has to actively decide to acknowledge an issue, and they're just... not. It undermines confidence in that status page.

It shows that some people have issues accessing the portal.

Re: Tell HN: Azure outage

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Post by thewisenerd » Wed, Oct 29, 2025, 4:27 PM UTC

they recently had an incident with front door reachability, wonder if it's back.

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Re: Tell HN: Azure outage

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Post by djeastm » Wed, Oct 29, 2025, 4:28 PM UTC

I'm mid-deployment, but thankfully it seems to be running ok so far. Just the portal is not working so my visibility is not good.

Re: Tell HN: Azure outage

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Post by mystcb » Wed, Oct 29, 2025, 4:28 PM UTC

jdc0589 wrote: post #37

mystcb wrote: post #33

Update 16:57 UTC: Azure Portal Access Issues Starting at approximately 16:00 UTC, we began experiencing Azure Front Door issues resulting in a loss of availability of some services. In addition. customers may experience issues accessing the Azure Portal. Customers can attempt to use programmatic methods (PowerShell, CLI, etc.) to access/utilize resources if they are unable to access the portal directly. We have faile…

yea its not just the portal. microsoft.com is down too

Yeah, I am guessing it's just a placeholder till they get more info. I thought I saw somewhere that internally within Microsoft it's seen as a "Sev 1" with "all hands on deck" - Annoyingly I can't remember where I saw it, so if someone spots it before I do, please credit that person :D

Edit: Typo!

Re: Tell HN: Azure outage

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Oct 29, 2025, 4:28 PM UTC

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