cloud resilience

Microsoft has put automatic zone balancing for Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets into public preview, giving cloud operators a built‑in mechanism to keep VMSS instances evenly distributed across availability zones and reduce the risk that a single zone outage will take out a disproportionate...

The Microsoft Azure outage that began at 19:46 UTC on February 2, 2026, and stretched into the next morning is not just another bullet point on a vendor status page — it is a textbook example of how small, automated changes inside a hyperscale cloud can cascade into long, painful outages that...

Microsoft’s cloud-sized hiccup over the weekend turned into a rare but blunt reminder that even the core plumbing behind Windows Update and the Microsoft Store depends on physical datacenter resilience — and when that plumbing surges and sputters, millions of devices can feel the ripple...

Microsoft Azure is not experiencing a single, platform‑wide blackout on February 9, 2026, but the cloud did suffer a string of high‑impact incidents earlier this week — including a VM/control‑plane failure and a follow‑on Managed Identities overload on February 2–3, and a localized West US...

Seeing “There has been an error” in the Microsoft Store is one of those Windows annoyances that shows up suddenly, blocks downloads or updates, and makes otherwise simple tasks feel like a technical emergency — but in the vast majority of cases the fix is straightforward and non‑destructive if...

Microsoft’s cloud suffered a regional power hiccup on February 7, 2026 that left a slice of the West US Azure footprint struggling — and it’s a reminder that even the biggest cloud platforms can be vulnerable to physical infrastructure failures and cascading recovery effects. (theverge.com)...

Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform suffered a prolonged, multi-stage outage that began at 19:46 UTC on Monday and was not fully resolved until 06:05 UTC the following morning, leaving customers worldwide unable to perform routine virtual machine lifecycle operations and—after a mitigation...

Microsoft's Azure OpenAI Service suffered a prolonged outage in the Sweden Central region on 27 January 2026, leaving customers in the region — including those constrained by EU data‑residency requirements — unable to run inference and realtime workloads for much of the working day. The failure...

Microsoft’s cloud productivity stack suffered a major disruption on January 22–23, 2026, when a portion of North America service infrastructure stopped processing traffic as expected — producing a roughly nine‑to‑ten hour outage that affected Outlook/Exchange Online, Microsoft 365 admin and...

Microsoft 365 users across North America endured a prolonged, high-impact disruption on January 22–23, 2026, as core services including Outlook, Exchange Online, OneDrive, Microsoft Defender, and Microsoft Purview were intermittently unavailable or sluggish for nearly ten hours whatile engineers...

Microsoft Copilot briefly went offline for a subset of North American users earlier today before Microsoft confirmed the problem had been fixed after a rollback of a configuration change, a short-lived incident that highlights both how quickly modern cloud services can be recovered and why...

On a bright November morning, thousands of businesses and millions of internet users found themselves staring at the same message: a Cloudflare‑branded error or the blunt browser prompt, “Please unblock challenges.cloudflare.com to proceed,” as essential services — from ChatGPT and X to...

Microsoft’s cloud controls and the internet’s DNS plumbing both showed real fragility on December 30, 2025, when a short but disruptive DNS-related incident that Microsoft labelled an “ACTIVE — DNS Resolution Issues for Azure Domains via OpenDNS” left customers around the world struggling to...

The internet’s backbone showed uncommon fragility in 2025 as a small number of control‑plane failures — DNS anomalies, configuration rollouts and authentication breakdowns — cascaded into outages that took millions of users, thousands of businesses and a chunk of the modern web offline. What...

The internet flickered — and for millions of users and hundreds of thousands of downstream services, it briefly went dark: a cluster of control‑plane and edge failures in late 2025 exposed how modern applications still ride on a handful of fragile primitives such as DNS, global edge routing and...

No — as of December 8, 2025, Microsoft Azure is not globally down, but the spike in community reports and the resurfacing of outage questions reflect real, recent incidents (notably an October 29 Azure Front Door incident and a December 5 Cloudflare edge outage) that have left admins...

The Property Council’s new half‑day course, Copilot Essentials for the Property Sector, packages a practical, role‑focused introduction to Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 and is explicitly built to help property managers, asset teams and shopping‑centre administrators apply AI to reporting...

Copilot users in the United Kingdom and parts of Europe were briefly locked out of Microsoft’s AI assistant on December 9, 2025, after a surge in traffic overwhelmed autoscaling controls and produced region-specific service failures that were visible on public trackers and acknowledged by...

Microsoft's Copilot experienced a region-wide disruption that left users across the United Kingdom and parts of Europe unable to access AI assistance, even as political developments in the South Caucasus have pushed Armenia and Azerbaijan closer to a negotiated peace — two separate stories that...

Microsoft’s Copilot — the AI assistant now woven into Word, Excel, Teams and other Microsoft 365 surfaces — experienced a significant regional outage that left users unable to complete Copilot-driven tasks and raised fresh questions about resilience, routing complexity and the operational risks...