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The October 13, 2026 Microsoft 365 Global Secure Access Outage

Some users in Germany and the United Kingdom who reach Microsoft 365 through Global Secure Access (GSA) may have been unable to use Outlook, Outlook on the web, OneDrive, SharePoint Online, Microsoft Teams and Windows 365 Cloud PCs on October 13, 2026, according to Microsoft's service health updates as recorded by IncidentHub. Microsoft's final update records the start at 07:40 UTC and the end at 18:31 UTC the same day - about 10 hours 51 minutes - and narrows the geographic scope to Germany only.

The October 8, 2026 Google Cloud Storage Outage

Google Cloud Storage in us-central1 (Iowa) had elevated latency and error rates on upload and write operations on October 8, 2026, and a smaller subset of reads was also affected, according to Google's incident page. Google records the start at 11:00 UTC and the end at 23:30 UTC the same day - 12 hours 30 minutes. The outage report - fetched on October 12, 2026 - includes a preliminary incident report as of this writing.

The September 30, 2026 Railway Outage

Railway-hosted domains returned HTTP 404 to new connections in all four Railway regions on September 30, 2026, for about five minutes between roughly 07:35 and 07:40 UTC. This happened after a new version of Railway's routing service went live before the database schema change it depended on had been applied.

The August 13, 2026 Namecheap Outage

Namecheap took more than 5,000 servers offline on August 13, 2026 after cooling systems failed at RadiusDC's Phoenix datacenter, and brought services back in stages over roughly 28 and a half hours. The shutdown was deliberate, intended to protect hardware from overheating. It reached most of the product line - hosting, EasyWP, Private Email, DNS management, URL redirect management and the support helpdesk - while DNS zone resolution was unaffected.

The August 6, 2026 GitHub Actions Outage: Queued Jobs, Throttled Webhooks, Impact Lasting 10 Hours

On August 6, 2026, GitHub opened an incident for degraded Actions performance at 15:22 UTC. Within about twenty minutes, Actions availability was listed as degraded, workflow runs were failing to start or failing partway through, and the Actions REST API was returning errors. Pages was pulled into the same incident shortly afterwards. The status page marked Actions and Pages as mitigated at 00:05 UTC on August 7, and closed the incident at 02:04 UTC.

The July 24, 2026 AWS us-west-2 Outage: Network Routing and a Long Recovery Tail

On July 24, 2026, AWS lost connectivity between the us-west-2 (Oregon) region and the Seattle Metro. The initial impact window was 20 minutes for most and 1 hour 17 minutes for a few customers using AWS Direct Connect through EqSe2, Westin Building Exchange, Seattle. Any traffic that both started and ended inside the region kept working, whereas anything crossing the region boundary saw timeouts and errors. This included the AWS Management Console for some customers.

The July 23 2026 Azure West US Outage: IP Route Removal and Downstream Impact

On July 23, 2026, Microsoft Azure experienced a connectivity outage in the West US region that blocked traffic entering or leaving the region for nearly five hours. Workloads that stayed entirely inside West US were not affected. Microsoft's preliminary Post Incident Review (PIR) attributes the failure to a bug in maintenance request conversion software that removed IP routes from more devices than intended during routine device maintenance.

H1 2026 Cloud and SaaS Reliability Report

The first half of 2026 reinforced a key idea about Cloud and SaaS reliability - dependency risk. IncidentHub tracked 30,246 outages across 1,082 providers between January and June 2026. May was the busiest month, with 6,070 incidents. Cloud providers led in the total number of outages (4,723), followed closely by developer tools (4,589).

The July 2026 AWS CloudFront Outage: VPC Origins, Cascade Impact, and What Broke

On July 16, 2026, AWS experienced a disruption in its CloudFront service, which affected a large number of websites and applications. The outage was caused by a configuration loading failure in CloudFront's VPC Origins feature. This was AWS's most widely-felt outage after last year's outage on October 20th, which caused widespread damage.