Why did Minecraft, Instagram go down during Azure, AWS outage. A recap | World News

Published on: Oct 30, 2025 12:00 pm IST On October 20, Amazon Web Services faced a major outage that affected platforms including Snapchat, McDonald’s, Venmo, Fortnite, Disney+ and others. Days after a major outage of cloud computing, Amazon Web Services, another widespread disruption hit Microsoft’s Azure and AWS late on Wednesday, which affected dozens of websites and apps. The root cause of the outage was a Domain Name System (DNS) error at AWS’s Northern Virginia data centre.(Reuters/Representational Image) The glitch was linked to Azure’s global content delivery network and its Front Door services, due to which users were unable to access Microsoft 365, Minecraft, Outlook and other services for hours. Microsoft Azure outage The Microsoft Azure outage that hit on Wednesday significantly impacted the Eastern United States, where difficulties were said to have started at approximately 4 p.m. UTC (9:30 pm). In a statement, Microsoft said that the DNS problems caused the troubles, later adding that things have started to recover. At one point, over 18,000 users reported issues in accessing Azure, as per the outage reporting website Downdetector. Microsoft also came forward to acknowledge the problem, stating that the recent configuration change triggered the outage. On October 20, Amazon
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