There is currently an outage with Azure that is affecting many online services. We are not aware of any impact to the functionality of Microsoft Flight Simulator itself, but the flightsimulator.com website and these forums are not currently loading images correctly. We will update this post as the Azure team provides further information. We apologize for any inconvenience that results from this Azure outage, and we thank you for your patience and understanding.
Azure Network Availability Issues
Starting at approximately 16:00 UTC, we began experiencing Azure Front Door (AFD) issues resulting in a loss of availability of some services. We suspect that an inadvertent configuration change as the trigger event for this issue. We are taking two concurrent actions where we are blocking all changes to the AFD services and at the same time rolling back to our last known good state.
We have failed the portal away from AFD to mitigate the portal access issues. Customers should be able to access the Azure management portal directly.
We do not have an ETA for when the rollback will be completed, but we will update this communication within 30 minutes or when we have an update.
This message was last updated at 17:18 UTC on 29 October 2025