Microsoft Azure vs Google Cloud: which is more reliable?
Microsoft Azure had no outage time and 0 incidents; Google Cloud had no outage time and 1 incident. Microsoft Azure posted fewer incidents.
Microsoft Azure right now: Operational Google Cloud right now: Operational
Since 15 October 2026
From what Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud published on their own status pages, read every 2 minutes. A vendor that reports problems more openly can look worse here than one that stays quiet.
| Measure | Microsoft Azure | Google Cloud |
|---|---|---|
| Time without reported problems | 100 % | 98.91 % |
| Time with an outage | none | none |
| Time degraded | none | 5 h 22 min |
| Days with an outage | 0 of 22 | 0 of 22 |
| Incidents posted | 0 | 1 |
| Of those, outages | 0 | 0 |
| Typical time to resolve | - | 6 h 8 min |
| Longest incident | - | 6 h 8 min |
Latest Microsoft Azure incidents
No incidents posted since 15 October 2026.
Latest Google Cloud incidents
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, 6 h 8 min
Multiple services were experiencing issues in the europe-west2 region.Postmortem