// Microsoft Azure · Asia Pacific

Is Azure australiaeast down right now?

Live status for the Microsoft Azure Australia East (Sydney) region (australiaeast), located in Australia. We probe a public Azure endpoint in this region every few minutes from outside Azure's own infrastructure.

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Latest probe

No recent probes.

Region insights

Traffic tier

Medium

Typical usage

low-latency workloads for APAC users and gaming/streaming backends

Relative latency

Not enough data

Recent health

No recent checks recorded.

Recent activity

No probe data has landed yet for this region.

No degradations detected in the recent probe window.

About Azure australiaeast

Australia East (Sydney) — exposed as Azure australiaeast — is a secondary Microsoft Azure region serving Australia. Workloads here typically include low-latency workloads for APAC users and gaming/streaming backends, so regional impact usually shows up downstream in those products before status pages catch up. What makes australiaeast distinct is that it serves as a regional alternate or compliance-driven home region. This page tracks reachability and latency from outside Microsoft Azure's own network, so a regional issue can be visible here before it lands on the official Azure status page.

For wider service-level context, see the global Azure status.

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Why this may differ from the official Azure status page

Regional issues often appear in independent probes before they are acknowledged on the provider's global status page.