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Microsoft Azure's UK South region experiences capacity issues - report
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Microsoft Azure is reportedly declining requests for cloud capacity at its UK South region, with the region allegedly maxed out.
Key facts
- This was less than the prior quarter, which reached $11.1bn, but the cloud giant has committed to some $50bn in additional future leases
- In Microsoft's late January quarterly earnings call (Q2 FY2026), the company said it had spent $6.7 billion on leasing data center capacity
- The region was launched in 2016, with additional availability zones being added in 2019
- As reported by Computer Weekly, citing comments from customers to the publication and message boards on Reddit, the issues are primarily associated with Azure virtual machines, with AMD-powered
Summary
As reported by Computer Weekly, citing comments from customers to the publication and message boards on Reddit, the issues are primarily associated with Azure virtual machines, with AMD-powered instances particularly impacted, as well as HPC and GPU-powered VMs. One commenter alleged that they are "waiting for more capacity to come online at the end of the year,” and another said: "Terrible capacity issues in UKS. Issues during migrations have been shared, with customers told that the request was being denied by the region owner due to a lack of capacity. Microsoft told Computer Weekly regarding the complaints: "Azure is delivered through a global network of around 80 regions worldwide, giving customers flexibility in how they deploy and scale workloads.