Microsoft Outage History
Microsoft is up right nowMicrosoft had 28 outages in the last 2 years totaling 97h 41m of downtime — averaging 1.2 incidents per month.
There were 28 Microsoft outages since April 24, 2026 totaling 97h 41m of downtime. Each is summarised below — incident details, duration, and resolution information.
Azure ExpressRoute Gateway service impacting event in multiple Azure Regions
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- monitoring Sep 30, 2026, 08:30 PM UTC
We are investigating an alert for Azure ExpressRoute Gateway in multiple Azure regions. We will provide more information as it becomes available.
ExpressRoute Gateway - Multiple services experiencing connectivity issues in multiple regions
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Multiple services experiencing connectivity issues in multiple regions
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Azure OpenAI and Foundry agent Service intermittent request failures and increased latency
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- monitoring Sep 29, 2026, 10:00 AM UTC
We are investigating an issue affecting Azure OpenAI and Foundry agent services in the Sweden Central region. Impacted customers may experience intermittent errors when making service requests. We are investigating the underlying issue and exploring mitigation options to restore normal service performance. Our analysis remains ongoing, and we are closely monitoring service health while continuing our investigation. We will provide additional information as it becomes available.
Intermittent request failures and increased latency across Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Foundry, and Cognitive Services
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- monitoring Sep 29, 2026, 10:00 AM UTC
We are investigating an issue affecting Azure OpenAI Service, Azure AI Foundry Agent Service, Azure AI Foundry Models, and Azure AI Cognitive Services in the Sweden Central region. Impacted customers may experience intermittent request failures, increased latency and HTTP 5XX error codes when making service requests. We are investigating the underlying issue and exploring mitigation options to restore normal service performance. Our analysis remains ongoing, and we are closely monitoring service health while continuing our investigation. We will provide additional information as it becomes available.
Observing improvements - Intermittent request failures and increased latency across Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Foundry, and Cognitive Services
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- monitoring Sep 29, 2026, 10:00 AM UTC
Impact Statement: Starting at 10:00 UTC on 29 September 2026, a subset of customers using OpenAI Service, Foundry Agent Service, Foundry Models, and Cognitive Services, in Sweden Central may experience intermittent request failures, increased latency, and HTTP 5XX error codes when submitting requests to affected models and APIs hosted in this region. Current Status: Currently we are monitoring improvements in the overall experience. Initial findings indicate that a backend service which is relied on to retrieve metadata information when managing requests for this region, was experiencing timeouts when reading from dependent database and caching layers. As a result, requests that depend on these processes were delayed or failed intermittently. Queued requests are being processed. We are continuing to investigate the health of supporting platform infrastructure or system processes that may impact these requests. The next update will be provided within 60 minutes, or as events warrant.
Network Infrastructure impacting event in East US
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- monitoring Sep 03, 2026, 10:03 AM UTC
We are investigating an issue affecting a subset of infrastructure within the East US region. Customers may experience service degradation for dependent Azure services. Our teams are actively investigating the cause and working to restore normal operations. More information will be provided as it becomes available.
Multiple Service impacted affecting West US Regions
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- monitoring Aug 28, 2026, 06:19 AM UTC
We are investigating an issue impacting multiple Azure services in the West US regions. Engineering teams are actively assessing the scope and working to mitigate customer impact. Further updates will be shared as they become available
Mitigated: Connectivity Issues Affecting Azure Services in Southeast Asia
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- resolved Aug 25, 2026, 06:09 AM UTC
We have mitigated a power-related infrastructure issue that affected a subset of Azure services in Southeast Asia. Most services have recovered and are operating normally. A remaining issue affecting a single storage stamp is being tracked separately, and impacted customers are being communicated with through a dedicated tracking process.
Investigating- Issues in Southeast Asia
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- monitoring Aug 25, 2026, 04:03 AM UTC
We are investigating an issue affecting a subset of infrastructure within the Southeast Asia region. Customers may experience connectivity issues or service degradation for dependent Azure services. Engineers are actively investigating the cause and working to restore normal operations. More information will be provided as it becomes available.
- monitoring Aug 25, 2026, 04:36 AM UTC
We have observed recovery for a portion of the infrastructure affected by this issue within the Southeast Asia region. While many impacted services and resources have recovered, a subset of customers may continue to experience connectivity issues or service degradation for dependent Azure services. Engineers are actively working to restore the remaining impacted infrastructure and validate full service recovery.More information will be provided as it becomes available.
Azure Portal access issues affecting Australia Regions
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- monitoring Aug 14, 2026, 05:28 AM UTC
We are aware of an issue affecting access to the Azure portal in the Australia regions. Our engineers are actively investigating the cause and impact. Further updates will be provided as more information becomes available.
Issues connecting to resources in West US
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- monitoring Jul 23, 2026, 04:29 PM UTC
We are investigating a networking issue affecting connectivity to Azure services in the West US region. Impacted customers may experience intermittent connectivity failures, increased latency, or difficulty accessing Azure services. Customers with traffic traversing the West US region may also experience downstream impact. We are exploring mitigation options on affected network devices. Early indications suggest the issue is related to network traffic flow through the impacted infrastructure; however our analysis remains ongoing. We are closely monitoring traffic while continuing our investigation. We will provide additional information as it becomes available.
Active – Connectivity Issues Affecting Azure Services in West US
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- monitoring Jul 23, 2026, 03:50 PM UTC
We are investigating an issue affecting connectivity to Azure services for a subset of customers in the West US region. Impacted customers may experience intermittent issues when accessing Azure services.We will provide more information as it becomes available.
GitHub Issue
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- monitoring Jul 08, 2026, 07:47 PM UTC
GitHub Enterprise Cloud with Data Residency is experiencing a service outage impacting all services, issue identified and mitigation in progress. For details please go here: : https://us.githubstatus.com/posts/details/PBJ0QTY
Mitigated – Customers leveraging a subset of services may experience 401 authentication errors
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- resolved Jun 16, 2026, 12:01 AM UTC
What happened?Between 21:45 UTC and 23:23 UTC on 15 June 2026, Azure customers leveraging services which depend upon Microsoft Artifact Registry (MAR) may have experienced 401 authentication errors when attempting to pull images from MAR . This incident is now mitigated. Further details will be provided directly to impacted customers through the Azure Portal.
Active – Customers leveraging a subset of services may experience 401 authentication errors
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- monitoring Jun 15, 2026, 11:44 PM UTC
Impact Statement: Starting at 21:45 UTC on 15 June 2026, a subset of Azure customers leveraging services which depend upon MCR (Microsoft Container Registry) for storing images may experience 401 authentication errors for requests attempting to pull Microsoft images from mcr.microsoft.com.Current Status: We detected this issue via internal service monitoring upon identifying a spike of 401 errors. We’ve identified a potential underlying factor to be a recent update which introduced a code regression, and we've completed roll out of a hotfix to address the code regression and mitigate impact for affected customers. We are closely monitoring internal telemetry to validate full mitigation and prevent further occurrences. The next update will be provided within 60 minutes, or as events warrant.
Investigating a spike in 401 authentication errors
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- monitoring Jun 15, 2026, 11:04 PM UTC
We are actively investigating customer alerts of 401 authentication errors when pulling images from mcr.microsoft.com. We’ve identified a potential underlying factor related to a recent update made to a backed service and we are actively working on determining mitigation workstreams. More information will be provided shortly.
Azure OpenAI Service Elevated Error Rates in multiple regions
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- monitoring May 29, 2026, 09:39 AM UTC
Impact Statement: Starting at 09:39 UTC on 29 May 2026, you have been identified as a subset of customers using Azure OpenAI service in multiple regions who may experience degraded request success where some requests returned errors or failed to complete. Current Status: We identified this issue through internal automated service monitoring after detecting a drop in call success rates. Our investigation indicates that the issue is linked to elevated server-side errors within a backend service layer in the affected region. We are actively investigating and working to determine the full scope and mitigation steps. The next update will be provided within 60 minutes, or sooner if there are significant developments.
Active – Network connectivity degradation in West US 2
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- monitoring May 29, 2026, 06:57 AM UTC
Impact Statement- Starting at 04:27 UTC on 29 May 2026, customers may experience increased latency, intermittent connectivity, or timeouts when accessing resources hosted in the West US 2 region. Engineers are actively investigating the issue and working to restore network stability. Some requests may succeed upon retry as connectivity intermittently recovers. We are sending targeted communications to impacted customers through the Azure Service Health dashboard. The next update will be provided within 60 minutes.
- monitoring May 29, 2026, 07:07 AM UTC
Impact Statement- Starting at 04:27 UTC on 29 May 2026, customers may experience increased latency, intermittent connectivity, or timeouts when accessing resources hosted in the West US 2 region, due to a power event. We are in process of recovering power and working to restore infrastructure in the region. We started seeing partial recovery and will be sending targeted communications to impacted customers through the Azure Service Health dashboard. The next update will be provided within 60 minutes.
Active – Multi Service degradation in West US 2
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Active – Multi Service degradation in West US 2 region.
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Active – Recovering - Multiple Services experiencing degradation in West US 2
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Azure Synapse Analytics - Connectivity Issues
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- monitoring May 27, 2026, 02:05 PM UTC
Impact: From 08:40 UTC, 27 May 2026, some customers using Azure Synapse Analytics (private link) may experience delays or failures accessing Synapse Studio or workspaces across multiple regions. As of now mitigation is in progress, and we are seeing initial signs of recovery.
Azure Synapse Analytics (East US)- Connectivity Issues
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- monitoring May 27, 2026, 01:01 PM UTC
Impact: From 08:40 UTC, 27 May 2026, some customers using Azure Synapse Analytics (private link, East US) may experience delays or failures accessing Synapse Studio or workspaces. We detected elevated connection failures via automated monitoring and are actively investigating.