Author: Maurice Manning
TLDR; On October 29, 2025, Microsoft Azure suffered a major outage due to a configuration error in their Azure Front Door global routing service, knocking out authentication and access for millions of users worldwide for over 5 hours. This outage exposed how critical authentication infrastructure is and why relying solely on single-cloud authentication can be… Read more »
TLDR The “Building on Solid Foundations” blog draft reflects on yesterday’s massive AWS outage caused by a DNS resolution failure in AWS’s US-EAST-1 region, which cascaded through numerous services globally. From my perspective as part of our vCISO team, this outage starkly illustrates that relying on a single cloud provider or DNS system—without resilient, multi-provider… Read more »