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Microsoft says a gateway management service change, combined with unrelated OS servicing, disrupted Azure ExpressRoute and VPN gateways from September 30 to October 1; a post incident review is pending.

A GitHub Actions failure on August 6 knocked out workflows, Pages, and Copilot for over eight hours, extending a run of dozens of monthly incidents this year.

A maintenance-system bug stripped IP routes from Microsoft's West US datacenter on July 23, knocking out Teams, SharePoint, and Azure services for about five hours.

A CloudFront routing-configuration failure tied to VPC Origins triggered widespread 5xx errors on July 16, hitting Hugging Face and the UK National Lottery before AWS restored service.

A cooling system failure in a single Northern Virginia availability zone triggered a 20-hour AWS outage that physically damaged EC2 and EBS hardware and brought down core trading services at Coinbase.