cloud networking

Microsoft Azure customers with workloads in the West US region faced a broad networking incident that produced intermittent connectivity failures, elevated latency, and trouble reaching both Azure resources and certain dependent Microsoft cloud services. The disruption began at approximately...

Cassava Technologies says its Africa Data Centres JHB1 facility in Johannesburg has been designated a Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute Metro peering location, giving South African organizations a second local site for redundant private connectivity into Azure. The announcement, published by Zawya on...

Microsoft has postponed the retirement of the Azure Synapse Analytics trusted-services firewall exception, so the earlier 2026 cutover date should no longer drive outage planning. Microsoft Q&A product-team guidance posted July 9 says a new workspace-level security setting will be available...

Ookla’s new Downdetector-based analysis says high-signal disruption days across major AI platforms rose from 6 in Q1 2025 to 51 in Q1 2026, using 3.72 million U.S. user reports collected between January 1, 2025, and April 16, 2026. That is not merely an outage statistic; it is a map of how...

Microsoft’s courtroom win over a patent challenge to its Azure networking stack has been short‑lived: the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has reversed a Western District of Texas ruling that had struck Exafer Ltd.’s damages testimony and then entered summary judgment of no damages...