Microsoft, AWS, Google Cloud: Inside 2026’s major technology outages
Major technology companies faced several service disruptions in 2026, testing their infrastructure and recovery systems. Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud and Cloudflare experienced outages involving software changes, network configurations, power supply and data-centre operations.
The latest major incident involved Microsoft on November 12, when an outage affected Outlook, Teams, Copilot and other Microsoft 365 services. The disruption continued into November 13 and affected businesses and government agencies in several countries. Microsoft attributed the incident to server issues and said it was rolling out fixes and monitoring service recovery.
