Outage

Microsoft Wobbles Again: Do Azure Staging Procedures Need a Rethink?

Given the scale of its user base and with a contract worth up to $10 billion in the bag to…

Azure UK South Outage: Overheating Cloud Dried Up Services for Customers

UK South -- one of Microsoft Azure's two local cloud regions -- crashed offline on Monday after an outage triggered…

IBM Cloud Outage: Another Wobble Raises Resilience Concerns

A fortnight after "third-party routing issues" knocked 80 IBM Cloud data centres globally and most services offline for well over…

Azure Goes Down in APAC, as Infrastructure Bottlenecks Continue to Trouble Microsoft

Microsoft Azure continues to struggle scaling up its infrastructure to meet the demands of booming workloads, a fresh outage suggests.…

Google Cloud Confirms, Fixes Sweeping Outage, Blames IAM API Issues

UPDATED 17.50 BST, April 8, 2020. Google Cloud says it has resolved all issues within a healthy 90 minutes of…

“Which One of Us Do You Want to See Naked?” – Gandi Snaps at Customers After Losing TBs of Data

French cloud services and domain name registrar Gandi.net says it has lost several TB of customer data after a hardware…

NCSC Denies LSE Outage Investigation, Amid Hacker Claims

The UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) today denied claims in the Wall Street Journal that intelligence officials are digging…

London Stock Exchange Fails to Open After Mystery Technical Glitch

Trading on the London Stock Exchange (LSE) was delayed by an hour and 40 minutes today, with a software error…

Azure Suffers Limited Outage After Requests Tip Service Over “Operational Threshold”

Infrastructure stretched by "larger than expected volumes of requests" was once again behind a short Microsoft Azure outage in West…

Microsoft Teams Down: Enterprise Software Goes “Oops! Something Went Wrong”

UPDATED 18:00 GMT. Microsoft says it has "rerouted traffic to healthy infrastructure which has improved Teams connectivity issues. We're investigating…