# Microsoft Azure outage on 30 September 2026

> 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.

- Service: [Microsoft Azure](https://stackpulse.app/services/microsoft-azure.md)
- Severity: major_outage
- Title on the status page: Active - Multiple services experiencing connectivity issues in multiple regions
- Started: 2026-09-30 22:28 UTC
- Ended: 2026-10-01 02:33 UTC
- Lasted: 4 h 5 min
- Page: https://stackpulse.app/services/microsoft-azure/outages/2026-09-30-2228

## At the same time

- [GitLab](https://stackpulse.app/services/gitlab.md): major_outage from 2026-10-01 00:38 UTC

Problems at the same time are a clue, never proof that one caused another.

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