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Is Azure OpenAI Down?

Azure AI · API & platform status

Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service, Azure AI Foundry, and Azure cloud AI infrastructure.

Official status data last reflected here: May 8, 2026, 5:53 AM UTC

All Systems Operational

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[ STATUS AT A GLANCE ]

Operational

Current Status

All Systems Operational

Components

Service areas tracked on this page

90d Incidents

Incidents reported in the last 90 days

System Components

Current status of individual Azure AI services

ModelsAll Systems Operational

system-wide incident history

90 days agoToday

Agent ServiceAll Systems Operational

system-wide incident history

90 days agoToday

ToolsAll Systems Operational

system-wide incident history

90 days agoToday

IQAll Systems Operational

system-wide incident history

90 days agoToday

Control PlaneAll Systems Operational

system-wide incident history

90 days agoToday

Azure Machine LearningAll Systems Operational

system-wide incident history

90 days agoToday

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About Azure AI

What Azure AI does, where the data on this page comes from, and recent reliability

[ ABOUT AZURE AI ]

About Azure AI

Azure AI provides Azure OpenAI Service, Azure AI Foundry, and Microsoft cloud AI infrastructure. Azure AI status matters for enterprises running provider access, quotas, and compliance workflows through Microsoft-managed regions and infrastructure.

This page pulls data from Azure AI's official status page to show current service health, any active incidents, and a history of recent issues, all in one view.

Azure OpenAI ServiceAzure AI FoundryMicrosoft cloud AI infrastructure

[ DATA SOURCES ]

Full incident history available

Azure AI publishes detailed component status, a full incident archive, and scheduled maintenance data through their official status page.

Data pulled from Azure AI's official status page (status.ai.azure.com)
Refreshed every 60 seconds
Covers Azure OpenAI Service, Azure AI Foundry, and Microsoft cloud AI infrastructure
Includes full incident archive and scheduled maintenance history

[ RELIABILITY ]

Recent reliability

12 incidents reported over the last 90 days.
Last reported incident was 30 days ago.
All 6 monitored components are currently operational.

[ COMMON USE CASES ]

How teams use Azure AI

Azure AI status matters for enterprises running provider access, quotas, and compliance workflows through Microsoft-managed regions and infrastructure.

Enterprise AI deployments

Compliance-heavy workloads

Regional cloud rollouts

Incidents & Maintenance

Active incidents, scheduled maintenance, and incident history for Azure AI

Past Incidents

Azure Status Alert: Post Incident Review (PIR) – Azure OpenAI – GPT-5.2 availability degradation in 7 regions

Apr 7, 2026 · Resolved Apr 7, 2026

Resolvednone

ResolvedApr 7, 2026, 5:46 PM UTC

Azure Status Event Alert (Resolved) Start Time: 2026-03-09 23:20:00 UTC End Time: 2026-03-10 19:32:00 UTC Impacted Services: Azure OpenAI Service (Australia East, Central US, East US 2, Korea Central, Norway East, Sweden Central, UK South)

Azure Status Alert: Post Incident Review (PIR) – Azure OpenAI – GPT-5.2 availability degradation in 7 regions

Apr 7, 2026 · Resolved Apr 7, 2026

Resolvednone

ResolvedApr 7, 2026, 3:34 AM UTC

Azure Status Alert: Post Incident Review (PIR) – Azure OpenAI – GPT-5.2 availability degradation in 7 regions

Apr 1, 2026 · Resolved Apr 1, 2026

Resolvednone

ResolvedApr 1, 2026, 12:16 AM UTC

Azure Status Alert: Post Incident Review (PIR) – Azure OpenAI – GPT-5.2 availability degradation in 7 regions

Mar 31, 2026 · Resolved Mar 31, 2026

Resolvednone

ResolvedMar 31, 2026, 10:26 AM UTC

Azure Status Alert: Post Incident Review (PIR) – Azure OpenAI – GPT-5.2 availability degradation in 7 regions

Mar 31, 2026 · Resolved Mar 31, 2026

Resolvednone

ResolvedMar 31, 2026, 7:18 AM UTC

Azure Status Alert: Post Incident Review (PIR) – Azure OpenAI – GPT-5.2 availability degradation in 7 regions

Mar 25, 2026 · Resolved Mar 25, 2026

Resolvednone

ResolvedMar 25, 2026, 7:35 AM UTC

Azure Status Alert: Post Incident Review (PIR) – Azure OpenAI – GPT-5.2 availability degradation in 7 regions

Mar 25, 2026 · Resolved Mar 25, 2026

Resolvednone

ResolvedMar 25, 2026, 7:35 AM UTC

Azure Status Alert: Mitigated – Azure OpenAI Service – Availability degradation

Mar 24, 2026 · Resolved Mar 24, 2026

Resolvednone

ResolvedMar 24, 2026, 12:13 AM UTC

Azure Status Alert: Mitigated – Azure OpenAI Service – Availability degradation

Mar 16, 2026 · Resolved Mar 16, 2026

Resolvednone

ResolvedMar 16, 2026, 10:17 AM UTC

Azure Status Alert: Mitigated – Azure OpenAI Service – Availability degradation

Mar 16, 2026 · Resolved Mar 16, 2026

Resolvednone

ResolvedMar 16, 2026, 10:06 AM UTC

Azure Status Alert: Mitigated – Azure OpenAI Service – Availability degradation

Mar 15, 2026 · Resolved Mar 15, 2026

Resolvednone

ResolvedMar 15, 2026, 6:27 AM UTC

Azure Status Alert: Mitigated – Azure OpenAI Service availability degradation

Mar 10, 2026 · Resolved Mar 10, 2026

Resolvednone

ResolvedMar 10, 2026, 8:51 PM UTC

Mitigated - Azure services intermittent unavailability in West US

Feb 7, 2026 · Resolved Feb 7, 2026

Resolvedminor

ResolvedFeb 8, 2026, 9:30 PM UTC

This incident has been resolved.

InvestigatingFeb 7, 2026, 7:32 PM UTC

Azure Status Event Alert (Updated) Start Time: 2026-02-07 08:00:00 UTC Impacted Services: Action Groups (West US), Alerts & Metrics (West US), API Management (West US), App Configuration (West US), App Service (West US), App Service (Linux) (West US), App Service (Linux) \ Web App for Containers (West US), App Service (Linux) \ Web Apps (West US), Application Gateway (West US), Application Gateway for Containers (West US), Application Insights (West US), Automation (West US), AutoScale (West US), Azure Active Directory \ Enterprise State Roaming (West US), Azure Active Directory Domain Services (West US), Azure AI Language (West US), Azure Analysis Services (West US), Azure API for FHIR (West US), Azure Applied AI Services (West US), Azure Applied AI Services \ Azure Video Indexer (West US), Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes (West US), Azure Arc enabled servers (West US), Azure Arc enabled VMware vSphere (West US), Azure Automanage (West US), Azure Bastion (West US), Azure Bot Service (West US), Azure Chaos Studio (West US), Azure Cognitive Search (West US), Azure Communication Services (West US), Azure Communications Gateway (West US), Azure Compute Fleet (West US), Azure confidential ledger (West US), Azure Container Apps (West US), Azure Container Service (West US), Azure Cosmos DB (West US), Azure Data Explorer (West US), Azure Data Share (West US), Azure Database for MariaDB (West US), Azure Database for MySQL (West US), Azure Database for MySQL flexible servers (West US), Azure Database for PostgreSQL (West US), Azure Database for PostgreSQL flexible servers (West US), Azure Database Migration Service (West US), Azure Databricks (West US), Azure DDoS Protection (West US), Azure Dedicated Host (West US), Azure Dedicated HSM (West US), Azure DevOps (West US), Azure DevTest Labs (West US), Azure Digital Twins (West US), Azure DNS Private Zones (West US), Azure File Sync (West US), Azure Firewall (West US), Azure Firewall Manager (West US), Azure Frontdoor (West US), Azure HPC Cache (West US), Azure Image Builder (West US), Azure Immersive Reader (West US), Azure IoT Hub (West US), Azure Key Vault Managed HSM (West US), Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) (West US), Azure Lab Services (West US), Azure Managed Applications (West US), Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra (West US), Azure Managed Lustre (West US), Azure Monitor (West US), Azure Monitor for SAP solutions (West US), Azure NetApp Files (West US), Azure OpenAI Service (West US), Azure Orbital (West US), Azure Private 5G Core (West US), Azure Private Link (West US), Azure Purview (West US), Azure Quantum (West US), Azure Red Hat OpenShift (West US), Azure Resource Manager (West US), Azure Route Server (West US), Azure Search (West US), Azure Sentinel (West US), Azure SignalR Service (West US), Azure Spring Cloud (West US), Azure SQL Migration extension for Azure Data Studio powered by Azure Database Migration Service (West US), Azure Synapse Analytics (West US), Azure Virtual Network Manager (West US), Azure VMware Solution (West US), Azure VMware Solution by CloudSimple (West US), Azure Web PubSub (West US), Backup (West US), Batch (West US), Cloud Services (West US), Cognitive Service for Language (West US), Cognitive Services (West US), Cognitive Services \ Academic Knowledge API (West US), Cognitive Services \ Anomaly Detector (West US), Cognitive Services \ Computer Vision API (West US), Cognitive Services \ Content Moderator API (West US), Cognitive Services \ Face API (West US), Cognitive Services \ Language Understanding (LUIS) (West US), Cognitive Services \ Speaker Recognition API (West US), Cognitive Services \ Speech Services API (West US), Cognitive Services \ Text Analytics API (West US), Cognitive Services \ Translator Text API (West US), Cognitive Services \ Web Language Model API (West US), Container Instances (West US), Container Registry (West US), Data Catalog (West US), Data Factory (West US), Data Factory V1 (West US), Data Lake Store (West US), Device Update for IoT Hub (West US), Event Grid (West US), Event Hubs (West US), ExpressRoute \ ExpressRoute Circuits (West US), ExpressRoute \ ExpressRoute Gateways (West US), Functions (West US), HDInsight (West US), IoT Central (West US), IoT Hub \ IoT Hub Device Provisioning Service (West US), Key Vault (West US), Load Balancer (West US), Log Analytics (West US), Logic Apps (West US), Machine Learning Services (West US), Media Services (West US), Media Services \ Encoding (West US), Media Services \ Streaming (West US), Microsoft Azure Attestation (West US), Microsoft Copilot for Security (West US), Microsoft Genomics (West US), Network Infrastructure (West US), network security perimeter (West US), Network Watcher (West US), NGINXaaS (West US), Notification Hubs (West US), Oracle Database@Azure (West US), Power BI Embedded (West US), Redis Cache (West US), SAP HANA on Azure Large Instances (West US), Scheduler (West US), Service Bus (West US), Service Fabric (West US), Service Map (West US), Site Recovery (West US), SQL Data Warehouse (West US), SQL Database (West US), SQL Managed Instance (West US), SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines (West US), SQL Server Stretch Database (West US), Storage (West US), Storage \ Data Box (West US), StorSimple (West US), Stream Analytics (West US), Time Series Insights (West US), Trusted Signing (West US), Universal Print (West US), Update management center (West US), Virtual Machine Scale Sets (West US), Virtual Machines (West US), Virtual Network (West US), Virtual Network NAT (West US), VPN Gateway (West US), VPN Gateway \ Virtual WAN (West US), Web Application Firewall (West US), Windows 10 IoT Core Services (West US), Windows Virtual Desktop (West US)

InvestigatingFeb 7, 2026, 7:31 PM UTC

InvestigatingFeb 7, 2026, 7:09 PM UTC

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Azure Status Alert: Preliminary Post Incident Review (PIR) - Azure OpenAI Service - Issues in Sweden Central

Jan 27, 2026 · Resolved Jan 27, 2026

Resolvedmajor

ResolvedJan 30, 2026, 8:14 PM UTC

Azure Status Event Alert (Archived) Start Time: 2026-01-27 09:22:00 UTC End Time: 2026-01-27 16:12:00 UTC Impacted Services: Azure OpenAI Service (Sweden Central)

Frequently Asked Questions

Is Azure OpenAI down right now?

Check the status indicator at the top of this page. It pulls directly from Azure AI's official status page. If Azure AI is experiencing any issues, you'll see it reflected here. This real-time monitoring helps teams quickly identify whether performance problems are caused by Azure AI infrastructure or their own systems.

What does this Azure AI status page track?

This page tracks Azure OpenAI Service, Azure AI Foundry, and Microsoft cloud AI infrastructure using data from Azure AI's official status page. You can see current component health, active incidents, and a history of past issues. This visibility is crucial for teams building resilient AI applications that need to route around provider outages.

How often is Azure AI status updated here?

We check Azure AI's status page every 60 seconds to ensure you get near real-time status updates. How quickly issues show up here depends on how fast Azure AI updates their own official status. For production systems that need instant failover, Bifrost can automatically detect and route around degraded providers.

Why monitor Azure AI status?

Azure AI status matters for enterprises running provider access, quotas, and compliance workflows through Microsoft-managed regions and infrastructure. Real-time status monitoring enables proactive incident response and helps teams decide when to route traffic to alternative providers for maximum uptime.

What should I do when Azure OpenAI or Azure AI has an outage?

When Azure AI experiences an outage, the best practice is automatic failover to alternative AI providers. Bifrost is an open-source AI gateway that automatically detects Azure AI degradation and routes LLM traffic to healthy alternatives like OpenAI, Anthropic, Cohere, keeping your application running with zero manual intervention. This intelligent routing ensures your users never experience downtime from a single provider's issues.

How can I prevent Azure AI downtime from affecting my application?

Production AI applications should never depend on a single provider. Bifrost AI Gateway provides automatic multi-provider failover, intelligent load balancing, and health-based routing. When Azure AI degrades, Bifrost instantly routes requests to operational alternatives while maintaining API compatibility. This architecture approach is used by teams running mission-critical AI features.

What are common causes of Azure AI outages and degraded performance?

Common causes of Azure AI issues include infrastructure scaling challenges, regional cloud provider problems, API gateway overload, and deployment errors. Monitor this page to stay informed, and consider implementing automatic failover with Bifrost to maintain uptime during Azure AI incidents.

Alternative Providers for Automatic Failover

When Azure AI experiences issues, Bifrost AI Gateway can automatically route your LLM traffic to these alternatives

OpenAI

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Anthropic

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