AI & Cloud Infrastructure
September 6, 2026ChatGPT, Claude and Grok down at once: your failover plan
On 3 September 2026, ChatGPT, Claude and Grok all suffered outages on the same afternoon, each from an independent cause: a routing error at OpenAI, an infrastructure issue at Anthropic and a compute-centre failure behind Grok. A runtime failover plan for Azure teams: Foundry's model router with automatic fallback, APIM's AI gateway and circuit breaker, what redundancy really costs, and the Data Zone and DORA constraints that shape it.
AI Failover
Resilience
Microsoft Foundry
Model Router
Azure API Management
DORA
EU Data Zone
Multi-Model
Outage
By Falak Mahmood