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. At approximately 5:21 PM ...

On September 26 th, Microsoft announced its Azure DNS service has reached General Availability (GA) in all public Azure regions. The service was initially launched, in preview, at the May 2015 Ignite ...

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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 ...

It has only been a couple of weeks since the last big Microsoft outage, and once again its growing network of cloud-operated service is struggling. Windows Central points out an Azure Status tweet ...

A look inside a Microsoft data center in Cheyenne, Wyo. (Microsoft Photo) An outage that lasted more than an hour took out a host of Microsoft cloud services Thursday afternoon, as networking ...

As the Azure status page makes clear, a global DNS outage is impacting users in all regions on Sept. 15, 2016. The status page said the outage started at 11:48 UTC (7:48 am ET). The page said the ...

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. The tech company posted a note to its ...

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 ...