Impact statement: As early as 19:46 UTC on 2 February 2026, we became aware of an issue causing customers to receive error notifications when performing service management operations - such as create, delete, update, scaling, start, stop - for Virtual Machines (VMs) affecting multiple regions. These issues are also impacting services with dependencies on these service management operations - including Azure Arc Enabled Servers, Azure Batch, Azure Cache for Redis, Azure Container Apps, Azure DevOps (ADO), Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure Backup, Azure Load Testing, Azure Firewall, Azure Search, Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets (VMSS), GitHub (see https://www.githubstatus.com)..

Current status: We determined that these issues were caused by a recent configuration change that affected public access to certain Microsoft‑managed storage accounts, used to host extension packages. We have applied our mitigation across all impacted regions and have performed validation checks to ensure that all affected resources have had their configurations updated. At this stage, customers should see signs of recovery across regions. We are currently monitoring downstream services for any further impact. Our next update will be provided by 08:00 UTC, approximately 2 hours from now, or sooner if we have progress to share.

Impact Statement: Starting at 18:44 UTC on 26 December 2024, a power incident in South Central US may have resulted in degradation in service availability.  

Current Status: We have determined that an unexpected power incident in one of the availability zones in South Central US impacted the availability of multiple Azure services. At approximately 20:43 UTC, power was confirmed to be fully restored, and services have started to recover. 

Mitigation steps are being applied, and services are on the path of recovery. 

• Service Bus, Log Analytics, Logic Apps, Azure Firewall, Storage accounts, and Application Gateway have been fully recovered. 
• Virtual Machines are close to mitigation. 
• CosmosDB, SQL DB, and App Service are on path of recovery. 

We are actively monitoring recovery progress and further updates will be provided in the next 2 hours, or as events develop. 

If you are impacted and it is possible, we advise you to consider failing your services to a different Availability Zone or region until we are fully restored.