Azure outage on May 29, 2026
Azure users likely saw failed connections, degraded availability, or session instability for this Cloud service. The incident reached Minor severity and lasted 2h 58m. The stored report window does not show a preserved user-report spike.
Impact Statement- Starting at 04:27 UTC on 29 May 2026, customers may experience increased latency, intermittent connectivity, or timeouts when accessing resources hosted in the West US 2 region, due to a power event. We are in process of recovering power and working to restore infrastructure in the region. We started seeing partial recovery and will be sending targeted communications to impacted customers through the Azure Service Health dashboard. The next update will be provided within 60 minutes.
Deterministic readout · awaiting AI summary pass
Incident detected
Minor confidence crossed the incident threshold for Azure: active – Network connectivity degradation in West US 2.
Marked resolved
The incident was closed after 2h 58m of observed impact.
No per-source signal payloads were preserved in this incident's snapshot window.
Confidence scoring
45.00The incident reached 45.00 peak confidence across available stored status snapshots.
User reports
0 / 15mNo elevated user-report volume was preserved in the incident window snapshots.
Status samples
0 affectedThe incident row exists, but the bounded snapshot window does not include affected status samples.
Recovery signal
ResolvedRecovery was recorded at Fri, May 29, 2026, 10:06 AM UTC.