Azure Central US outage grounds US budget airlines
A configuration change in Azure's Central US region disrupted Azure and Microsoft 365 services for hours, forcing Frontier to cancel 147 flights hours before the CrowdStrike failure.
- Service
- Microsoft Azure (Central US)
- Date
- 18 July 2024
- Cause
- Configuration change
- Duration
- 4 hours
- Status
- resolved
- Severity
- major
- Region
- Global
- Source
- TechRadar ↗
Cite this
Nuffield Consulting, “Azure Central US outage grounds US budget airlines”, The Daily Tech Wire outage & breach log, 18 Jul 2024. https://techwire.nuffieldconsulting.com/incidents/2024-07-18-microsoft-azure-central-us-outage/ (retrieved 15 Nov 2026).
This entry summarises public reporting. Please also cite the original source: TechRadar, https://techradar.com/pro/microsoft-says-its-cloud-services-are-back-up-after-major-outage.
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