cloud outages

Microsoft Azure customers across Asia, the Middle East and parts of Europe saw increased latency and degraded performance after multiple undersea fiber‑optic cables in the Red Sea were cut in early September, forcing traffic onto longer, congested detours and exposing persistent vulnerabilities...

Microsoft's Azure cloud felt the ripple effects of a string of undersea fiber cuts in the Red Sea on September 6, 2025, as traffic carrying vital Asia–Europe and Middle East connections was forced onto longer, more congested routes — a stark reminder that even the largest cloud platforms remain...

Microsoft’s Azure cloud experienced measurable performance degradation after multiple undersea fiber-optic cables in the Red Sea were cut, forcing traffic onto longer detours and exposing how physical shipping lanes and seabed cables remain a critical, fragile layer beneath cloud-era resilience...

Microsoft’s terse Service Health advisory on September 6, 2025 — warning that “network traffic traversing through the Middle East may experience increased latency due to undersea fiber cuts in the Red Sea” — was the first public signal of a disruption that quickly rippled through global cloud...

Microsoft has warned that users of its Azure cloud may see higher-than-normal latency and intermittent disruptions after multiple undersea fiber-optic cables in the Red Sea were cut, forcing traffic onto longer alternate routes while repair work and global rerouting continue. Background The Red...

On July 29, 2025, a sudden capacity shortfall in Microsoft Azure’s East US region prevented many customers from creating or starting virtual machines — an event that exposed a blunt reality: public cloud elasticity has practical, physical limits, and “infinite” capacity is a marketing...

When cloud users place their trust in hyperscale providers, the expectation is one of robust reliability, seamless patch management, and minimal service interruptions—especially for mission-critical workloads. This social contract between enterprise and service provider is now under scrutiny...

Cloud computing is at a pivotal crossroads in the United Kingdom, as organizations increasingly reject single-provider strategies in favor of multi-cloud architectures—a movement driven by both technological need and regulatory scrutiny. Recent findings, underpinned by research from cloud...

For millions of users across the globe, email remains an indispensable digital lifeline, enabling everything from critical business communication to maintaining personal connections. So, when a trusted platform like Microsoft Outlook suffers an hourslong outage that disrupts access for...

Microsoft Outlook users worldwide experienced significant disruptions beginning on the evening of July 9, 2025, and extending into the following morning. At the peak of the outage, over 2,700 users reported issues accessing their email accounts, according to Downdetector, a platform that...

The recent global Microsoft Outlook outage sent ripples throughout the digital world, leaving thousands of users unable to access critical communication and collaboration tools. For countless businesses and individuals who have come to depend on the stability and reliability of Microsoft 365...

Microsoft 365 users are currently experiencing significant disruptions, with Outlook services going down shortly after the resolution of a Teams outage. This sequence of events has raised concerns about the reliability of Microsoft's cloud services and their impact on global productivity. The...

In recent hours, a significant and unexpected service disruption has gripped Microsoft Outlook, leaving millions unable to access their emails, contacts, and calendar information—essentials that business professionals, students, and casual users alike depend on daily. The outage, swiftly...

Microsoft has publicly acknowledged a search malfunction currently plaguing a subset of OneDrive users across Windows, iOS, Android, and the web interface. Reports have surfaced of users unable to retrieve files via search—even when they are certain the files exist within their cloud storage...

Cloud-based productivity suites have become the backbone of global business operations, accelerating everything from daily communications to mission-critical decision-making. Among these, Microsoft 365 stands at the forefront, its ubiquity cemented by robust offerings like Teams, Exchange...

The ever-evolving landscape of data center reliability offers a compelling study in both technical achievement and persistent vulnerability. Recent evidence, most notably from the Uptime Institute’s Annual Outage Analysis, paints a nuanced picture: as data centers grow more reliable year over...

For millions of Microsoft 365 users across North America, a sudden wave of connectivity issues recently underscored how critical cloud infrastructure has become—not just for day-to-day business operations, but for the reliability and trust that underpin digital workspaces. Microsoft, one of the...

IBM Cloud’s reputation for robust security and regulatory compliance has positioned it as a formidable choice for enterprises in heavily regulated sectors such as finance, healthcare, and government. In recent years, the competitive landscape among cloud providers has shifted, with increasing...

Microsoft’s cloud services have become the backbone of modern productivity, and incidents affecting their reliability reverberate across organizations worldwide. Recently, users of Outlook on the web and SharePoint Online found themselves grappling with delays and outright failures when trying...

Microsoft’s relentless march to define the modern productivity landscape has never been without friction, but the recent spate of email server issues has illuminated just how fragile even the world’s largest cloud ecosystems can be. Users have come to expect cloud-based email, like Outlook and...