After the recent outage of Amazon Web Services, Microsoft is now experiencing widespread downtime, affecting several of its key platforms, including Azure, Microsoft 365, Teams, Outlook, and the Microsoft Store.
According to real-time tracking site Downdetector, reports of disruptions began flooding in late on October 29, leaving thousands of users worldwide unable to access critical services. The outage appears to have affected both enterprise and consumer platforms, causing cascading issues across connected applications such as Copilot, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
Microsoft confirmed the disruption on its Azure Status Page, stating that engineers are investigating problems with the Azure Portal and related services. “Customers may be having difficulty accessing the portal,” the company said, promising further updates.
Downdetector recorded over 19,800 reports for Azure and more than 10,700 for Microsoft 365. Major corporate clients, including Starbucks, Kroger, and Costco, are also impacted, highlighting that the issue extends beyond Microsoft’s internal systems.
Meanwhile, users have flooded social media with reports, complaints, and humorous takes on the outage, turning frustration into online amusement.
The Outage has caused a meme fest. Here are a few of the memes
Microsoft Intune seems down, or should I say Entra is down as Entra isn't responding as well.#MsIntune #Azure pic.twitter.com/HPiYXPzM5b
— Peter Klapwijk | MVP (@inthecloud_247) October 29, 2025
microsoft hasn’t announced anything, and all my stuff is down in east us region pic.twitter.com/I90YSHxiBt
— K Super (@rokaisuper) October 29, 2025
https://t.co/ljNkgelzjW, https://t.co/wybVsKlrZy and https://t.co/fzSje6x8Rd down in the UK. I can't do any work… Oh no! #microsoft #Microsoft365 pic.twitter.com/2qMMi1hOJv
— Hag (@djhagg1s) October 29, 2025
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