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Is Azure southafricanorth down right now?

Live status for the Microsoft Azure South Africa North (Johannesburg) region (southafricanorth), located in South Africa. We probe a public Azure endpoint in this region every few minutes from outside Azure's own infrastructure.

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Latest probe

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Region insights

Traffic tier

Low

Typical usage

African-region workloads where local presence matters

Relative latency

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Recent health

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Recent activity

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About Azure southafricanorth

Azure southafricanorth (South Africa North (Johannesburg)) is one of Microsoft Azure's smaller-footprint regions in South Africa. It is most often used for African-region workloads where local presence matters, which means an outage here tends to surface as customer-facing issues for those workloads first. What makes southafricanorth distinct is that it is a smaller geographic-coverage region for South Africa. 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.

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.