What proactive measures can organizations implement in Azure to minimize the impact of potential DDoS-induced outages?

Proactive measures include implementing Azure DDoS Protection Standard, designing highly available and geographically distributed architectures, using Azure Front Door or Azure Application Gateway with Web Application Firewall (WAF) for application-layer protection, employing auto-scaling for compute resources, segmenting networks with Azure Virtual Network and Network Security Groups (NSGs), and ensuring robust monitoring and alerting for traffic anomalies and resource utilization. Regularly reviewing and updating security policies is also crucial.