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Outage in Microsoft Ads

Some advertising services impacted due to Azure Network Outage

Resolved Minor
July 23, 2026 - Started 10 days ago - Lasted about 4 hours
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Incident Report

Summary AI Generated

A network outage in Azure beginning at approximately 14:44 UTC on July 23, 2026, impacted Microsoft Ads, causing delays in new offers going live in the Microsoft Merchant Center (MMC). Ad delivery was not affected during the incident. The issue was resolved within approximately 4 hours, with engineering actively engaged throughout to address the disruption.

Starting at approximately 14:44 UTC on 23 July 2026, there was a network outage observed in Azure. Advertisers might observe delay in new offers going live in MMC. At this time there is no known impact to Ad Delivery.

We are evaluating potential impact across Advertising services. Engineering is engaged and actively working on a fix. We apologize for any inconvenience and will share updates as more information becomes available.
Components affected
Microsoft Ads Web UI

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