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Is Azure centralus down right now?

Live status for the Microsoft Azure Central US (Iowa) region (centralus), located in United States. We probe a public Azure endpoint in this region every few minutes from outside Azure's own infrastructure.

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Region insights

Traffic tier

Medium

Typical usage

regional workloads close to local users and compliance boundaries

Relative latency

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Recent health

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Recent activity

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About Azure centralus

Azure centralus (Central US (Iowa)) is one of Microsoft Azure's secondary regions in United States. It is most often used for regional workloads close to local users and compliance boundaries, which means an outage here tends to surface as customer-facing issues for those workloads first. What makes centralus 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

Official status pages can lag real incidents by several minutes. This page reflects what an external client sees right now.