Azure East US provisioning stalls for 12 hours
Lock contention in the networking control plane blocked resource provisioning.
- Service
- Microsoft Azure (East US)
- Date
- 24 April 2026
- Cause
- Software bug
- Duration
- 11.9 hours
- Status
- resolved
- Severity
- major
- Region
- Global
- Source
- Ideatives cloud outages brief ↗
Cite this
Nuffield Consulting, “Azure East US provisioning stalls for 12 hours”, The Daily Tech Wire outage & breach log, 24 Apr 2026. https://techwire.nuffieldconsulting.com/incidents/2026-04-24-microsoft-azure-east-us-outage/ (retrieved 15 Nov 2026).
This entry summarises public reporting. Please also cite the original source: Ideatives cloud outages brief, https://ideatives.com/briefs/cloud-outages/.
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