Veeam incident

Azure Windows VM backups with VSS failing

Resolved after 6 hours 31 minutes, affecting Azure - Asia Pacific and Azure - Americas and 1 more, on July 3, 2026.

resolved Jul 03, 2026, 09:41 PM UTC

Engineers deployed a fix and as of 21:40 UTC, we are seeing successful operations across affected services. The issue has been resolved and we are no longer observing customer impact. Please contact support if you continue to experience any issues.

Started
Jul 03, 2026, 03:09 PM UTC
Resolved
Jul 03, 2026, 09:41 PM UTC
Duration
6h 31m
Detected by Pingoru
Jul 03, 2026, 03:09 PM UTC

Affected components

Azure - Asia PacificAzure - AmericasAzure - Europe, Middle East & Africa

Update timeline

  1. identified Jul 03, 2026, 03:09 PM UTC

    We're investigating an issue affecting some backups of Windows VM that use VSS. A fix has been validated and is currently being deployed to production. We'll provide another update once deployment is complete.

  2. resolved Jul 03, 2026, 09:41 PM UTC

    Engineers deployed a fix and as of 21:40 UTC, we are seeing successful operations across affected services. The issue has been resolved and we are no longer observing customer impact. Please contact support if you continue to experience any issues.

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