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- 1Azure West US 2 Outage Prompts Questions on Cloud Resilience●The January 10, 2026 Azure West US 2 outage highlights why cloud resilience requires more than infrastructure redundancy
Microsoft's Azure West US 2 region suffered a power interruption on January 10, 2026, disrupting services hosted in the region. A postmortem of the incident is drawing attention, arguing that the outage shows redundancy alone is insufficient and that organisations need architectures designed for recovery, failover across regions, and practical resilience strategies beyond infrastructure duplication.