Is anyone else in the Netherlands seeing problems with Azure and related Microsoft services? The public Azure status page is often slow or fails to load, while Entra ID sign-ins, Intune, health dashboards, Azure-hosted websites, databases, and API calls are intermittently timing out or becoming extremely slow. The issues seem inconsistent, with services sometimes recovering and then failing again. Several affected users appear to be on VodafoneZiggo or Ziggo business fiber connections, while switching to a mobile hotspot on another carrier seems to help. Has anyone found an official explanation or confirmed whether this is an Azure outage or an ISP connectivity problem?
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The strongest pattern so far is the ISP route. Users on wired VodafoneZiggo or Ziggo connections are having trouble, while users switching to another mobile carrier generally recover. It’s still worth checking the Azure service-health blade when the portal is reachable, but the lack of a matching Microsoft incident and the carrier-specific behavior point toward a network or peering issue rather than a complete Azure platform outage.
We’re seeing the same thing on a VodafoneZiggo business fiber connection in the Netherlands. Microsoft portals are very slow, Entra web sign-in is unreliable, and some Azure databases, APIs, and hosted sites are timing out. Everything becomes much more stable when users switch to 5G, so the connectivity problem may be somewhere between VodafoneZiggo and Azure rather than a general Azure outage.
Same experience here on Ziggo fiber. A mobile connection is noticeably more reliable, and another company using VodafoneZiggo reported the same symptoms.
This appears to affect more than one organization. Reports include Amsterdam, Overijssel, and other parts of the Netherlands, with some users also seeing problems in the UK and France. Intune deployments, SaaS sign-ins, Teams access, and Azure-hosted applications are intermittently failing. The public status page doesn’t seem to reflect the issue, and the tenant service-health view is either empty or inaccessible.
We’re seeing intermittent timeouts from the UK as well, although the Dutch VodafoneZiggo connection seems especially affected.
That matches what we’re seeing. VodafoneZiggo has been contacted and is investigating, but there still isn’t a clear public incident description.