Azure stumbles in Western Europe, Microsoft blames 'thermal event'

Microsoft has warned of a “thermal event” impacting Azure users in its West Europe region, and perhaps elsewhere.

A status update time-stamped 2249 UTC on November 5th advises that as of 1700 UTC on the same day, “a subset of customers in the West Europe region may experience service disruptions or degraded performance across multiple services, including Virtual Machines, Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Servers, MySQL Flexible Servers, Azure Kubernetes Service, Storage, Service Bus, and Virtual Machine Scale Sets, among others.”

Microsoft also warns that users of Azure Databricks in West Europe “may see degraded performance when launching or scaling all-purpose and jobs compute workloads, impacting Unity Catalog and Databricks SQL operations.”

The West Europe region is in the Netherlands.

The Windows giant blamed the problems on “a thermal event affecting datacenter cooling systems, which led to a subset of storage scale units going offline in a single availability zone ...