Force Majeure

Q: Does a cloud provider outage qualify as force majeure?

Usually not. Most well-drafted contracts exclude events that could be mitigated through proper planning (like multi-region deployment). Cloud provider outages are generally considered a vendor management issue, not force majeure.

ClauseOps

Force majeure (French for 'superior force') is a contractual clause that excuses one or both parties from performance obligations when extraordinary, unforeseeable events occur, such as natural disasters, wars, pandemics, or government actions. In the cloud infrastructure context, force majeure…