Azure East US 2 networking failure lasts about 50 hours
A networking configuration change in Azure's East US 2 region disrupted virtual machines, databases and other services for roughly 50 hours.
- Service
- Microsoft Azure (East US 2)
- Date
- 8 January 2025
- Cause
- Configuration change
- Duration
- 50 hours
- Status
- resolved
- Severity
- major
- Region
- Global
- Source
- IncidentHub ↗
Cite this
Nuffield Consulting, “Azure East US 2 networking failure lasts about 50 hours”, The Daily Tech Wire outage & breach log, 8 Jan 2025. https://techwire.nuffieldconsulting.com/incidents/2025-01-08-microsoft-azure-east-us-2-outage/ (retrieved 15 Nov 2026).
This entry summarises public reporting. Please also cite the original source: IncidentHub, https://blog.incidenthub.cloud/major-cloud-outages-2025.
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