Is Azure down right now?
Live public-endpoint check for Azure (azure.microsoft.com). We compare EU and US reachability, then link to the provider reference for broader context.
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About Azure
Microsoft Azure is the second-largest cloud provider, running Virtual Machines, App Service, Functions, Azure SQL Database, Cosmos DB, AKS (Kubernetes), Storage Accounts, Entra ID (formerly Azure AD), and tight integrations with Microsoft 365 and Dynamics 365. Outages are regional, similar to AWS and GCP, but Entra ID incidents are especially painful because every Microsoft 365 login and most enterprise SSO flows route through it. The Azure Portal (portal.azure.com) occasionally experiences outages independent of the underlying services, meaning customers cannot manage resources even though their workloads run fine. Azure Service Health in the portal is the authoritative per-subscription incident view.
The official Azure status page is available as a reference. Official pages are useful, but they can lag behind real outages by minutes or hours. Independent monitoring catches issues faster.
What outages typically look like on Azure
Cloud platforms like Azure rarely fail in obvious, all-or-nothing ways. The more common pattern is regional degradation: one availability zone or geographic region runs at half capacity while the rest of the platform serves traffic normally. Status pages often show green because the aggregate health check is still passing, even when a customer's specific workload is degraded.
The live tool above checks the public azure.microsoft.com endpoint from EU and US and compares status and response time. That can reveal a regional reachability problem, but it cannot prove that every Azure product, API, or customer workload is healthy. Use the provider status reference and test the specific workflow you depend on before drawing a broader conclusion.
Common signs Azure is having issues
- HTTP 503 (service unavailable) or 504 (gateway timeout) responses creeping into normal browsing
- Sustained response-time drift above the Azure baseline (usually a precursor to hard failures)
- TLS handshake delays during peak hours that resolve at quieter times
- Regional disparity: one geography returns errors while another stays healthy
What to do when Azure is degraded
If Azure appears degraded, compare the EU and US endpoint results, open the provider status reference, and test the exact region and workflow your system uses. Preserve failed request IDs and timestamps for support. If only one region fails, use an alternate region only when your own failover policy permits it.
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Provider status references
and endpoint checks answer different questions.
Independent endpoint evidence
The regional check can show that a public endpoint is failing before or after a provider posts broader incident context. It does not validate every product subsystem.
Scheduled alerts
Monitor Azure on your plan interval and route confirmed endpoint failures through the notification channels available to your workspace.
Multi-region verification
EU and US results can reveal a regional difference in public-endpoint reachability. Confirm the exact workflow and provider region you use.
Historical data
Track Azure uptime over time. See trends, identify recurring issues, and make informed decisions about your dependency.