InfoQ - Disaster Recovery - News https://www.infoq.com InfoQ Disaster Recovery News feed Azure Front Door Outage: How a Single Control-Plane Defect Exposed Architectural Fragility https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/11/azure-afd-control-plane-failure/?utm_campaign=infoq_content&utm_source=infoq&utm_medium=feed&utm_term=Disaster+Recovery-news <img src="https://res.infoq.com/news/2025/11/azure-afd-control-plane-failure/en/headerimage/generatedHeaderImage-1762107963960.jpg"/><p>A recent 9-hour Azure Front Door (AFD) outage was triggered by a faulty control-plane configuration change that bypassed safety checks due to a software defect, leading to a massive blast radius and affecting M365 and Entra ID via Identity Coupling, exposing a critical architectural anti-pattern in centralized edge fabrics.</p> <i>By Steef-Jan Wiggers</i> Cloud Disaster Recovery Azure Cloud Architecture Microsoft Azure Networking CDN Microsoft DevOps Architecture & Design Development news Wed, 05 Nov 2025 10:00:00 GMT https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/11/azure-afd-control-plane-failure/?utm_campaign=infoq_content&utm_source=infoq&utm_medium=feed&utm_term=Disaster+Recovery-news Steef-Jan Wiggers 2025-11-05T10:00:00Z /news/2025/11/azure-afd-control-plane-failure/en