Azure incident
Active – Multi Service degradation in West US 2 region.
Azure experienced a major incident on May 29, 2026 affecting App Service — West US 2 and Azure Cache for Redis — West US 2 and 1 more component, lasting 13h 8m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
Update timeline
- monitoring May 29, 2026, 04:27 AM UTC
Impact Statement: Starting at 04:27 UTC on 29 May 2026, we are investigating an incident which is impacting multiple services in West US 2, due to a power event. This impacts service accessibility in the region, with customers potentially experiencing increased latency and intermittent connectivity, including timeouts when connecting to resources. Current Status: We identified this issue through our automated monitoring after detecting elevated alerts related to network and infrastructure health in the West US 2 region. The issue was triggered by a power event in the datacenter, which impacted underlying infrastructure and led to increased latency and intermittent connectivity for select resources. We are aware of the impact and are actively investigating. Mitigation efforts are underway to restore affected network components across dependent services, including Storage and Compute. Customers may begin to see signs of recovery as these actions progress. The next update will be provided within 60 minutes, or sooner if there are significant developments.