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.