
Police departments across US report ‘nationwide’ 911 OUTAGE, possibly caused by Microsoft cloud glitch
Police departments across US report ‘nationwide’ 911 OUTAGE, possibly caused by Microsoft cloud glitch
A number of police departments around the United States have reported that their 911 services are down, a widespread outage believed to be linked to a glitch in Microsoft cloud computing platform Azure.
Police and sheriffs departments in at least Minnesota, Arizona, California, Nevada, North Carolina and Pennsylvania noted issues with their emergency call systems on Monday, directing residents to use alternative numbers while they work to correct the issue, allegedly caused by a technical failure in Microsoft’s Azure cloud computing services.
No official explanation has yet been offered for the outages in any of the affected locations.