Kubernetes kicks down Azure Front Door www.theregister.com/2025/10/0…

If you struggled to access the Azure Portal or Microsoft Entra this [Thu] morning, you weren’t alone – Microsoft has blamed a Kubernetes crash for the outage. The Windows giant noted problems from 0740 UTC, with multiple regions around the world reporting issues with its services.

“We understand that this is due to a dependency on some underlying Kubernetes instances that crashed. We have ruled out any deployments that could have triggered this event.” That said, losing almost a third of one’s capacity due to crashing Kubernetes instances is less than ideal. A properly-architected solution should be able to recover from whatever woes befall the orchestrator, but apparently not Azure.