Microsoft Azure outage on 30 September 2026
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“Active - Multiple services experiencing connectivity issues in multiple regions”
On 30 September, Microsoft Azure had a major outage in which multiple services had connectivity issues in multiple regions. It lasted from 22:28 to 02:33 UTC on 1 October, about 4 hours 5 minutes. The status page's updates first described an alert for Azure ExpressRoute Gateway in multiple regions, GitLab separately reported delayed email delivery during the same period, and this was Azure's second outage in four days.
- When
- 22:28–02:33 UTC
- How long
- 4 h 5 min
- Microsoft Azure, 30 days before
- 1 other outage
At the same time
Started in the hour before or during it
And 127 lesser-known services. Problems at the same time are a clue, never proof that one caused another.
Where this comes from
Stackpulse reads Microsoft Azure’s official status page at azure.status.microsoft every minute. The times above are when it reported the problem; the summary is written from its updates and checked against them.
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