Lightning knocks out power across two Azure West US 2 zones
Utility power disturbances impaired services for about 22 hours.
- Service
- Microsoft Azure (West US 2)
- Date
- 29 May 2026
- Cause
- Power / cooling
- Duration
- 22.1 hours
- Status
- resolved
- Severity
- major
- Region
- Global
- Source
- Ideatives cloud outages brief ↗
Cite this
Nuffield Consulting, “Lightning knocks out power across two Azure West US 2 zones”, The Daily Tech Wire outage & breach log, 29 May 2026. https://techwire.nuffieldconsulting.com/incidents/2026-05-29-microsoft-azure-west-us-2-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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