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Microsoft Azure, or at least the part of it that handles the OpenAI service in the Sweden Central region, was down and out for the count yesterday, leaving users facing errors for much of the working day.

Microsoft first acknowledged the issues at 0900 UTC (although the status page for the service stated it spotted the problem at 0922 UTC). At the time, Microsoft blamed the Azure OpenAI Service's availability issues on "an unhealthy backend dependent service, which led to cascading failures."

The Windows behemoth noted problems when using modes such as GPT-5.2, GPT-5 Mini, GPT-4.1, and related APIs.

The team took mitigating steps, Microsoft said. In other words, that old IT standby was deployed, and the offending IRM service was turned off and turned back on again at 1236 UTC.

The problem didn't go away. At 1246 UTC, Microsoft said pods were crashing with out-of-memory ...