Microsoft Azure Outage History

Azure SQL Managed Instance experienced intermittent start and failover issues across multiple regions, causing customers to encounter exceptions and errors during create or update operations. The incident lasted 1.1 hours, during which Microsoft identified the root cause and applied mitigation steps to affected resources.

Starting at 08:10 UTC on February 26, 2026, a subset of Azure SQL Managed Instance customers experienced failures during start, stop, or failover operations, resulting in temporary unavailability of their database instances across multiple regions. The incident lasted 1.3 hours and was classified as a minor service disruption. The issue has been resolved, restoring normal functionality to affected Azure SQL Managed Instance services.