# Reliability lessons from the 2025 Microsoft Azure Front Door outage

DevFeed: [Reliability lessons from the 2025 Microsoft Azure Front Door outage](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/reliability-lessons-from-the-2025-microsoft-azure-front-door-outage-11699.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.gremlin.com/blog/reliability-lessons-from-the-2025-microsoft-azure-front-door-outage>)

Author: Gavin Cahill

Published: 2025-11-17T00:00:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Gremlin Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/gremlin-blog.md>)

Topics: [Azure](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/azure.md>), [Microsoft](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/microsoft.md>), [Cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloud.md>), [cloud-infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloud-infrastructure.md>)

Tags: [2025](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/2025.md>), [after-the-retrospective](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/after-the-retrospective.md>), [azure](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/azure.md>), [backup](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/backup.md>), [best-practices](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/best-practices.md>), [cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloud.md>), [infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/infrastructure.md>), [microsoft](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/microsoft.md>), [outage](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/outage.md>), [outages](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/outages.md>), [recovery](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/recovery.md>), [uptime](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/uptime.md>), [xbox](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/xbox.md>)

## AI overview

This article examines reliability lessons from the October 2025 global outage affecting Microsoft Azure Front Door, Azure Content Delivery Network, and related Microsoft services. It emphasizes customer responsibility for uptime, redundancy, tested failover, and active-active infrastructure.

## Source excerpt

In October 2025, Microsoft Azure Front Door and Content Delivery Network suffered a global outage. Find out what your team can do to minimize the impact of similar outages in the future.