The incident was severe enough to cause widespread issues across various industries, including the grounding of hundreds of flights by major airlines due to disruptions in their booking and check-in systems.
No cloud provider offers an outage-free service. A recent significant example of a cloud storage outage occurred in July 2024 when Microsoft's Azure cloud services went down, primarily affecting users in the Central US region. The outage, which lasted about a day, disrupted multiple Azure services and Microsoft 365 applications. The incident was severe enough to cause widespread issues across various industries, including the grounding of hundreds of flights by major airlines due to disruptions in their booking and check-in systems.