Microsoft Azure West US Cloud Services Experience Five-Hour Outage

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Published: 2026-07-24
Category: technology
Source: Network World

Microsoft's Azure and other cloud services in its West US region were disrupted for five hours on July 23rd, between 14:44 UTC and 19:41 UTC. The outage was caused by the accidental removal of IP routes from networking equipment during routine maintenance.

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