Azure East US runs out of capacity
Demand outstripped compute, so customers hit VM allocation failures from late July. Microsoft declared it resolved by 5 August.
- Service
- Microsoft Azure (East US)
- Date
- 29 July 2025
- Cause
- Capacity
- Duration
- Not stated or multi-day
- Status
- resolved
- Severity
- major
- Region
- Global
- Source
- CIO.com ↗
Cite this
Nuffield Consulting, “Azure East US runs out of capacity”, The Daily Tech Wire outage & breach log, 29 Jul 2025. https://techwire.nuffieldconsulting.com/incidents/2025-07-29-microsoft-azure-east-us-outage/ (retrieved 15 Nov 2026).
This entry summarises public reporting. Please also cite the original source: CIO.com, https://www.cio.com/article/4109186/7-major-it-disasters-of-2025.html.
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