Multi Service degradation in West US 2 region
Azure is currently experiencing multi-service degradation in the West US 2 region due to a power event. This incident began at 04:27 UTC on May 29, 2026, affecting various Azure services and leading to increased latency and intermittent connectivity. Mitigation efforts are underway, and customers may start to see recovery signs as actions progress.
- ▪The incident was triggered by a power event in the datacenter.
- ▪Affected services include Azure App Service, Azure Backup, and Azure Cosmos DB, among others.
- ▪Customers are experiencing increased latency and potential timeouts when connecting to resources.
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| Original publisher | Status |
| Canonical URL | https://azure.status.microsoft/status |
| Publication time | Fri, 29 May 2026 09:28:49 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-29T09:50:00.154Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-29T09:50:09.223Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | Ar_M3DTTlmIY |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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Skip to Main Content Welcome to the new Azure status page. Don't forget to update this page in your bookmarks. Learn More Azure status This page is only used for widespread incidents. RSS Sign in to view incidents that may be affecting your services Go to Azure Service Health HELPFUL LINKS Azure status history Learn when we use this page Get notified of outages that impact you Building reliable applications on Azure Updated 2 seconds ago | Refresh every 2 minutes 5 minutes 10 minutes 30 minutes .st0{fill:#107C10;} Created with Sketch. Good Information Warning Critical N/A Warning Active – Multi Service degradation in West US 2 region.
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