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3 days agoAzure Front Door Outage: How a Single Control-Plane Defect Exposed Architectural Fragility
The ADF outage, triggered by a faulty control-plane configuration change, brought Microsoft 365, Xbox Live, the Azure Portal, and thousands of customer websites to a crawl before a staged recovery returned services to normal. Moreover, the outage's blast radius was broad, demonstrating the profound dependency of the entire Microsoft ecosystem and its customers on AFD as a centralized edge fabric.
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