[Update - October 30, 6:07 AM ET] The issues Microsoft's Azure cloud service experienced yesterday have been solved, and all affected services, including Xbox game downloads are now back online. Original story follows. [Original Story] Microsoft's Azure cloud service is experiencing a massive outage affecting multiple services, including Xbox game downloads and Minecraft. Microsoft confirmed the cause in an Azure status update, stating the widespread connectivity issues began around 16:00 UTC. The company attributed the trigger event to "an inadvertent configuration change" in the Azure Front Door (AFD) service. Several concurrent actions are being taken to solve the issue, but […]
Microsoft reported fiscal first-quarter revenue and profits ahead of analysts’ expectations on Wednesday, with Azure revenue growth climbing to 40%.
The earnings report came as the company continued to deal with the lingering effects of a widespread cloud outage that started earlier in the day.
The company’s capital expenditures reached a record $34.9 billion — reflecting its long-term buildout of cloud infrastructure to meet demand for artificial intelligence. That was up from $24.2 billion in Q4. Microsoft had projected capital spending of more than $30 billion for Q1.
Along with that unprecedented buildout, Microsoft sought to address investor concerns about a potential AI bubble, by highlighting its commercial remaining performance obligation (RPO), a measure of future contracted revenue. That backlog grew 51% year-over-year to $392 billion.
The company also disclosed for the first time that this RPO has a weighted average duration of roughly two years, a move intended to show investors that its record capital spending is supported by strong, long-term customer demand.
Revenue was $77.7 billion for the quarter ended Sept. 30, Microsoft’s first quarter of fiscal 2026. That was up 18%, and compared with average analyst expectations of $75.39 billion. The company said the result was driven by strong demand for cloud and AI services.
Profits were $27.7 billion, or $3.72 per share, beating expectations of $3.66 per share.
Earlier Wednesday, an Azure cloud services outage disrupted operations for customers worldwide including Alaska Airlines, Xbox users and Microsoft 365 subscribers. Microsoft reported as of early afternoon that it was rolling back the faulty configuration and that customers should see improvements.
Microsoft stock was down by about 3% in after-hours trading. The company’s market value reached $4 trillion after the announcement of its new OpenAI deal on Tuesday morning.
Huge Microsoft outage takes down Xbox, Minecraft and more Microsoft Azure has experienced a major outage, taking down internet services both inside and outside of the company. DownDetector is seeing a major spike in outage reports for Microsoft services, including Minecraft, Xbox, Microsoft Outlook, Office 365, Teams, and more. There are also outage complaints for […]
An outage on Microsoft’s Azure cloud services Wednesday morning disrupted operations for customers worldwide including Alaska Airlines, Xbox users and Microsoft 365 subscribers.
The incident came just ahead of Microsoft’s quarterly earnings call today and follows last week’s outage at Amazon Web Services and a failure of Alaska Airlines’ own data center technology.
The latest outage struck at 9 a.m. PT, according to Microsoft, when the system “began experiencing Azure Front Door (AFD) issues resulting in a loss of availability of some services. We suspect that an inadvertent configuration change as the trigger event for this issue.
“We are taking several concurrent actions: Firstly, where we are blocking all changes to the AFD services, this includes customer configuration changes as well. At the same time, we are rolling back our AFD configuration to our last known good state,” the company stated. “As we rollback we want to ensure that the problematic configuration doesn’t re-initiate upon recovery.”
Alaska Airlines posted on X at 10:33 a.m., explaining that the Azure outage was disrupting systems including their website function. Passengers flying on Alaska and Hawaiian airlines who were unable to check-in online were directed to airline agents to receive their boarding passes.
“We apologize for the inconvenience and appreciate your patience as we navigate this issue,” the post said.
Microsoft did not indicate when the outage would be resolved.
“We do not have an ETA for when the rollback will be completed, but we will update this communication within 30 minutes or when we have an update,” the company posted at 10:51 a.m.
UPDATE: At 12:22 p.m. the company shared an update stating it had deployed the “last known good” configuration of the impacted system and customers should start seeing improvements. “[W]e anticipate full mitigation within the next four hours as we continue to recover nodes …. We will provide another update on our progress within two hours, or sooner if warranted,” Microsoft added.
Days after its outage last week, AWS offered a detailed explanation of the event, which was caused by a cascading failure triggered by a rare software bug in one of the company’s most critical systems. The disruption impacted sites and online services around the world.
Alaska Airlines attributed its recent outage to a failure at its primary data center. The company operates a hybrid infrastructure, blending its own data centers with third-party cloud platforms. The incident disrupted travel for more than 49,000 passengers.
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