Microsoft Azure incident

Active – Network connectivity degradation in West US 2

Major Resolved View vendor source →

Microsoft Azure experienced a major incident on May 29, 2026, lasting 34m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.

Started
May 29, 2026, 07:07 AM UTC
Resolved
May 29, 2026, 07:42 AM UTC
Duration
34m
Detected by Pingoru
May 29, 2026, 07:07 AM UTC

Update timeline

  1. monitoring May 29, 2026, 06:57 AM UTC

    Impact Statement- Starting at 04:27 UTC on 29 May 2026, customers may experience increased latency, intermittent connectivity, or timeouts when accessing resources hosted in the West US 2 region. Engineers are actively investigating the issue and working to restore network stability. Some requests may succeed upon retry as connectivity intermittently recovers. We are sending targeted communications to impacted customers through the Azure Service Health dashboard. The next update will be provided within 60 minutes.

  2. monitoring May 29, 2026, 07:07 AM UTC

    Impact Statement- Starting at 04:27 UTC on 29 May 2026, customers may experience increased latency, intermittent connectivity, or timeouts when accessing resources hosted in the West US 2 region, due to a power event. We are in process of recovering power and working to restore infrastructure in the region. We started seeing partial recovery and will be sending targeted communications to impacted customers through the Azure Service Health dashboard. The next update will be provided within 60 minutes.