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Microsoft Azure California outage caused by fiber cut

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Microsoft experienced a five-hour outage in its Azure cloud services across California due to a fiber optic cable issue. The problem, caused by a maintenance error, affected 27 services and led to significant disruption for users in the region. AI

IMPACT Disruption to Azure services can impact AI workloads and development relying on Microsoft's cloud infrastructure.

RANK_REASON The cluster describes an infrastructure outage affecting a cloud service provider, which falls under the 'tool' category as it relates to the operational aspects of technology services.

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Microsoft Azure California outage caused by fiber cut

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  1. The Register — AI TIER_1 English(EN) ·

    Microsoft fiber foul-up cut off Azure California for almost five hours

    Maintenance mistake caused immediate issues and took out 27 services and

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