# Microsoft Azure outage on 8 October 2026

> On 8 October, Microsoft Azure had a major outage affecting Azure Data Factory in the UK South region, with pipeline and activity failures and timeouts. It lasted 1 h 27 min, from 09:59 to 11:25 UTC, and one version of the incident title also mentioned delays. Box, Lovable and AgoraPulse also had problems at the same time.

- Service: [Microsoft Azure](https://stackpulse.app/services/microsoft-azure.md)
- Severity: major_outage
- Title on the status page: Active -Azure Data Factory – Pipeline/Activity Failures and Timeouts – UK South
- Started: 2026-10-08 09:59 UTC
- Ended: 2026-10-08 11:25 UTC
- Lasted: 1 h 27 min
- Page: https://stackpulse.app/services/microsoft-azure/outages/2026-10-08-0959

## At the same time

- [Box](https://stackpulse.app/services/box.md): critical from 2026-10-08 09:29 UTC
- [Lovable](https://stackpulse.app/services/lovable.md): issue from 2026-10-08 09:46 UTC
- [AgoraPulse](https://stackpulse.app/services/agorapulse.md): major_outage from 2026-10-08 11:07 UTC

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

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