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Is Azure ukwest down right now?

Live status for the Microsoft Azure UK West (Cardiff) region (ukwest), located in United Kingdom. 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

Low

Typical usage

EU-hosted workloads with data-residency requirements (GDPR)

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 ukwest

UK West (Cardiff) — exposed as Azure ukwest — is a smaller-footprint Microsoft Azure region serving United Kingdom. Workloads here typically include EU-hosted workloads with data-residency requirements (GDPR), so regional impact usually shows up downstream in those products before status pages catch up. What makes ukwest distinct is that it is a smaller geographic-coverage region for United Kingdom. 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.