Between 15:45 UTC on 29 October and 00:05 UTC on 30 October 2025, customers and Microsoft services leveraging Azure Front Door (AFD) experienced latencies, timeouts, and errors.
The AFD & CDN delivery services continue to be stable and are running as expected.
Out of an abundance of caution, all service management operations (including creation, updates, deletions, and purges) to AFD via portal or APIs continue to remain temporarily suspended. We are working on a comprehensive plan to gradually reenable these in a phased approach, while ensuring the platform remains stable.
We will continue to share periodic updates as we make progress. Next Update will be by 01:00 UTC on 31 Oct 2025 or sooner.
The Azure Front Door (AFD) and Content Delivery Network (CDN) delivery data planes were fully mitigated at 00:05 UTC on 30 October 2025 and remains at normal operating levels. As we complete our full investigation and implement further safe checks, service management operations (create, update, delete, purge, etc.) are temporarily unavailable.
We will notify customers once the restriction is lifted, and we will be sending periodic communication on the progress. Next Update will be by 19:00 UTC on 31 Oct 2025 or sooner as event warrant.
Azure Front Door (AFD) and Content Delivery Network (CDN) delivery data planes were fully mitigated at 00:05 UTC on 30 October 2025 and remain at normal operating levels. As we complete our full investigation and implement further safe checks, service management operations (create, update, delete, purge, etc.) are temporarily unavailable.
We are working to provide an ETA on when we can lift the restriction and will continue sending periodic communication on the progress via Azure Service Health. The next update will be by 19:00 UTC on 01 November 2025 or sooner as events warrant.
Azure Front Door (AFD) and Content Delivery Network (CDN) delivery data planes were fully mitigated at 00:05 UTC on 30 October 2025 and remain at normal operating levels. As we complete our full investigation and implement further safe checks, service management operations (create, update, delete, purge, etc.) are temporarily unavailable.
Our current expectation is to lift the restriction on 05 November 2025, and we will continue sending periodic communication on the progress via Azure Service Health. The next update will be by 19:00 UTC on 01 November 2025 or sooner as events warrant.
Azure Front Door (AFD) and Content Delivery Network (CDN) delivery data planes were fully mitigated at 00:05 UTC on 30 October 2025 and remain at normal operating levels. As we complete our full investigation and implement further safe checks, service management operations (create, update, delete, purge, etc.) are temporarily unavailable.
Our current expectation remains to lift the restriction on 05 November 2025, and we will continue sending periodic communication on the progress via Azure Service Health. The next update will be by 19:00 UTC on 02 November 2025 or sooner as events warrant.
Azure Front Door (AFD) and Content Delivery Network (CDN) delivery data planes were fully mitigated at 00:05 UTC on 30 October 2025 and remain at normal operating levels. As we complete our full investigation and implement further safe checks, service management operations (create, update, delete, purge, etc.) are temporarily unavailable.
Our current expectation remains to lift the restriction on 05 November 2025, and we will continue sending periodic communication on the progress via Azure Service Health. The next update will be by 03:00 UTC on 03 November 2025 or sooner as events warrant.
Azure Front Door (AFD) and Content Delivery Network (CDN) delivery data planes were fully mitigated at 00:05 UTC on 30 October 2025 and remain at normal operating levels. As we complete our full investigation and implement further safe checks, service management operations (create, update, delete, purge, etc.) are temporarily unavailable.
Our current expectation remains to lift the restriction on 05 November 2025, and we will continue sending periodic communication on the progress via Azure Service Health. The next update will be by 03:00 UTC on 03 November 2025 or sooner as events warrant.
Azure Front Door (AFD) and Content Delivery Network (CDN) delivery data planes were fully mitigated at 00:05 UTC on 30 October 2025 and remain at normal operating levels. As we complete our full investigation and implement further safe checks, service management operations (create, update, delete, purge, etc.) are temporarily unavailable.
Our current expectation remains to lift the restriction on 05 November 2025, and we will continue sending periodic communication on the progress via Azure Service Health. The next update will be by 19:00 UTC on 03 November 2025 or sooner as events warrant.
Azure Front Door (AFD) and Content Delivery Network (CDN) delivery data planes were fully mitigated at 00:05 UTC on 30 October 2025 and remain at normal operating levels. As part of completing our full investigation and safe checks, performing service management operations (create, update, delete, purge, etc.) were made temporarily unavailable.
Restrictions on service management operations have been removed for this Azure subscription ID. Please allow approximately 30–40 minutes for changes to fully propagate to edge sites. We expect all restrictions across subscriptions, including other subscriptions under your tenant, to be lifted by 05 November 2025. Updates on progress will continue via Azure Service Health. The next update will be provided by 22:00 UTC on 04 November 2025, or sooner if circumstances change.
We acknowledge that previous communication may have contained information meant for another list of customers. We apologize for the inconvenience and request you to note the following.
Azure Front Door (AFD) and Content Delivery Network (CDN) delivery data planes were fully mitigated at 00:05 UTC on 30 October 2025 and remain at normal operating levels. As we complete our full investigation and implement further safe checks, service management operations (create, update, delete, purge, etc.) are temporarily unavailable.
The workflow to manage and rotate Bring Your Own Certificate (BYOC) certificates has been re-enabled. We will monitor the progress of working through the queue of necessary rotations. We will continue to provide regular updates on progress. Our current expectation remains to lift the restriction on 05 November 2025. The next update will be by 22:00 UTC on 04 November 2025 or sooner as events warrant.
In preparation for lifting the service management restrictions, an incorrect communication was sent indicating an early removal. Our current date for lifting all control plane restrictions remains 05 November 2025. The next update will be provided by 22:00 UTC on 04 November 2025, or sooner.
Azure Front Door (AFD) and Content Delivery Network (CDN) delivery data planes were fully mitigated at 00:05 UTC on 30 October 2025 and remain at normal operating levels. As we complete our full investigation and implement further safe checks, service management operations (create, update, delete, purge, etc.) are temporarily unavailable.
We continue to hit our milestones toward the expectation to lift this restriction on 05 November 2025. The next update will be sent to confirm once this has happened, or sooner if events warrant.
Latest Update: As of 23:00 UTC on 5 November, 2025 restrictions on Azure Front Door (AFD) and Content Delivery Network (CDN) service management operations have been removed. You may now resume normal operations on the AFD service management plane. For enhanced safety and protection, we have extended the configuration propagation times up to 45 minutes. Additional platform enhancements which are underway are expected to optimize the propagation times further.
Previous Context: Azure Front Door (AFD) and Content Delivery Network (CDN) delivery data planes were fully mitigated by 00:05 UTC on 30 October 2025 and remain at normal operating levels. We previously notified you that, as part of completing our full investigation and safe checks, performing service management operations (create, update, delete, purge, etc.) were temporarily restricted. This notification is to confirm that those temporary restrictions no longer apply.
Next Steps: As mentioned in our Preliminary PIR we are completing an internal retrospective to understand the incident in more detail. Once this is completed, which is expected within approximately 7 days, we will publish our final Post Incident Review (PIR) - including a link to register for an Azure Incident Retrospective livestream, discussing the incident and our learnings.
Azure Front Door frequently asked questions (FAQ) | Microsoft Learn
Latest Update: As of 23:00 UTC on 5 November, 2025 restrictions on Azure Front Door (AFD) and Content Delivery Network (CDN) service management operations have been removed. You may now resume normal operations on the AFD service management plane. For enhanced safety and protection, we have extended the configuration propagation times up to 45 minutes. Additional platform enhancements which are underway are expected to optimize the propagation times further.
Previous Context: Azure Front Door (AFD) and Content Delivery Network (CDN) delivery data planes were fully mitigated by 00:05 UTC on 30 October 2025 and remain at normal operating levels. We previously notified you that, as part of completing our full investigation and safe checks, performing service management operations (create, update, delete, purge, etc.) were temporarily restricted. This notification is to confirm that those temporary restrictions no longer apply.
Next Steps: As mentioned in our Preliminary PIR we are completing an internal retrospective to understand the incident in more detail. Once this is completed, which is expected within approximately 7 days, we will publish our final Post Incident Review (PIR) - including a link to register for an Azure Incident Retrospective livestream, discussing the incident and our learnings.
Azure Front Door frequently asked questions (FAQ) | Microsoft Learn
We understand there is a global outage for MS Azure. Our team is aware of the issue.
Status pages and the admin portal may not be accessible.
We apologize for any inconvenience.
The Microsoft Azure outage is still affecting cnames for domains, but not the status.page domain. You may use https://yourpagename.status.page to access your page and the admin portal login.
We apologize for any inconvenience.
At 9:37 AM EDT an incident occurred which delayed incident notification processing. The incident was fully resolved by 2:30 PM EDT. More details on the root cause will follow. Subscribers would still see status pages as expected, but incident notification would have been delayed.
StatusCast engineers noted some processing degradation that may have caused delays in some actions.
The team has identified the issue.
StatusCast engineers noted a background processing degradation that caused delays in some actions from being completed in a timely fashion.
This has been resolved. We apologize for any inconvenience.
StatusCast engineers identified a backup in its background processing that is causing delays in some actions from being completed in a timely fashion.
Engineers have determined the root cause of the backup in processing. During this time we have scaled out the service that is responsible to help clear out the remaining items faster.
Services should be operating as expected.
StatusCast engineers have been alerted to a possible performance impacting event affecting status pages and the admin application response times. This event is not impacting notification processing. We apologize for this inconvenience and will provide an update shortly.
All services should be fully functional and performing regularly.
StatusCast's engineers determined that at approximately 8:00PM EST on November 15th 2024, several of StatusCast's application servers experienced an issue that caused the response time to spike. StatusCast's infrastructure in Azure is designed to perform scaling procedures for services under duress, and for all but one of the application services in question this was done successfully restoring the service to an acceptable level of performance.
The remaining application service in the EU did not correctly scale and stayed in a degraded state for multiple days. On November 18th engineers were alerted that some customers were still experiencing load time delays and at that point the last server was corrected.
After this event occurred StatusCast's DevOps team began an audit of all scaling procedures to ensure that application services across our Azure operational regions adhere to a consistent scaling process and to ensure that monitoring is properly deployed to all services as having a single application service remaining in a degraded state for days is not acceptable.
StatusCast engineers were alerted earlier that some users were experiencing sporadic issues attempting to connect to the status page and admin portal. Our hosting provider, Microsoft Azure, has alerted us via their status page that they are experiencing some network issues globally. We will provide an update as soon as more information is available.
Access to status pages has remained stable and Azure has updated their status indicating failover processes have been engaged to improve their service availability. StatusCast's engineers will continue to watch this closely and will post additional updates as necessary.
StatusCast's application has continued to remain stable. Our engineers will continue to watch the system closely as Microsoft has not fully closed out the event on their side. For more specific details on Azure's issue please refer to their status page. We will provide additional updates as necessary.
Microsoft has closed the issue on their side and StatusCast's platform continues to operate as expected. Once Microsoft has published more details on this we will provide here in the form of an RCA.
Mitigation Statement - Azure Front Door Issues accessing a subset of Microsoft services
At approximately 8:19PM EDT, StatusCast’s engineers were alerted that some status page and admin applications were inaccessible. The team identified that its hosting partner, Microsoft, was experiencing some issues in its US East region related to app services and SQL databases connections. As of 9:03PM EDT services have been restored and StatusCast’s team is currently working with Microsoft to fully investigate the incident. Once the team has completed it’s investigation we will follow up with an RCA.
At this time StatusCast should be operating fully as expected, if you continue to have any further issues please contact us at support@statuscast.com
As of 9:03PM EDT services have been restored and StatusCast’s team is currently working with Microsoft to fully investigate the incident. Once the team has completed it’s investigation we will follow up with an RCA.
In working with Microsoft, StatusCast’s team confirmed that the disruption was due to an outage with SQL Databases located in Azure’s US East region which is where StatusCast is primarily hosted:
StatusCast itself was impacted by this outage from approximately 8:19 PM EDT and had fully recovered by 9:03 PM EDT. StatusCast’s team will continue to work closely with Microsoft to further optimize its offering to help ensure that impact of service provider outages is as minimal as possible.
