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Impact Statement: Starting at approximately 21:56 UTC on 18 Jul 2024, a subset of customers may experience issues with multiple Azure services in the Central US region including failures with service management operations and connectivity or availability of services.
Current Status: We are aware of this issue and have engaged multiple teams. We’ve determined the underlying cause. A backend cluster management workflow deployed a configuration change causing backend access to be blocked between a subset of Azure Storage clusters and compute resources in the Central US region. This resulted in the compute resources automatically restarting when connectivity was lost to virtual disks. Mitigation has been confirmed for all Azure Storage clusters, the majority of services are now recovered. A small subset of services is still experiencing residual impact. Impacted customers will be continuing to communicate throuhg Azure service health portal. The next update will be provided in 60 minutes, or as events warrant.
https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/architecture/resiliency/recovery-loss-azure-region .
This message was last updated at 04:38 UTC on 19 July 2024

Impact Statement: Starting at approximately 21:56 UTC on 18 Jul 2024, a subset of customers may experience issues with multiple Azure services in the Central US region including failures with service management operations and connectivity or availability of services.
Current Status: We are aware of this issue and are actively investigating. The next update will be provided in 60 minutes, or as events warrant.
This message was last updated at 23:17 UTC on 18 July 2024

Starting at approximately 07:33 UTC on 16 Sep 2023, a subset of customers in East US region are experiencing errors when trying to connect to their Azure SQL Databases. We are aware of this issue and actively working to recover the affected resources. More information will be provided within 60 minutes, when we expect to know more about the root cause and mitigation workstreams.
This message was last updated at 16:37 UTC on 16 September 2023

Impact Statement: Starting at approximately 08:30 UTC on 30 August 2023, a utility power surge in the Australia East region tripped a subset of the cooling units offline in one datacenter, within one of the Availability Zones. While working to restore cooling, temperatures in the datacenter increased so we proactively powered down a small subset of selected compute and storage scale units, to avoid damage to hardware. Multiple downstream services were impacted, with targeted communications being distributed via Azure Service Health.
Current Status: Having successfully recovered 99% of storage services and 99% of impacted Virtual Machines, we are beginning to see the recovery on the impacted nodes. At this stage, we believe most downstream services that are still experiencing impact are the result of dependencies on one of three services with recovery ongoing.
Power has been restored to all clusters hosting Cosmos DB. Accounts that were not failed over should see recovery in Australia East. Accounts failed over to alternate regions will continue to operate in these alternate regions; the Cosmos DB team has begun to bring Australia East region online.
Over 99% of impacted Azure storage accounts are now fully recovered. Due to thermal damage, we continue working on recovering a small number of resources to bring the remaining impacted storage accounts back online. We have recovered 75% of the remaining impacted resources, and as we continue making progress, additional services are displaying indications of improvement.
Azure SQL is continuing to recover impact to a single backend cluster, impacting a small subset of databases instances. Additionally, we are taking steps to reduce the overall zonal load to facilitate improved resource allocation and recovery.
Further updates on these remaining recovery efforts will be provided 2 hours, or as events warrant.
This message was last updated at 14:47 UTC on 31 August 2023

Impact Statement: Starting at approximately 08:30 UTC on 30 August 2023, a utility power surge in the Australia East region tripped a subset of the cooling units offline in one datacenter, within one of the Availability Zones. While working to restore cooling, temperatures in the datacenter increased so we proactively powered down a small subset of selected compute and storage scale units, to avoid damage to hardware.
Multiple downstream services were impacted, with targeted communications being distributed via Azure Service Health. Impact to services is limited to Australia East, except for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) which has impact in both Australia East and Australia Southeast due to a dependency in the former. If your workloads are protected by Azure Site Recovery or Azure Backup, and you need critical services back online before all services in this datacenter are fully recovered, we recommend either to initiate a failover to the recovery region or recover using Cross Region Restore. Note that any new allocation requests for the Australia East region will automatically avoid the impacted scale units. 
Current Status: Mitigation efforts are continuing, we have made significant progress in restoring core services, and we expect that the vast majority of remaining services should be back online in the next 2-3 hours. After restoring power and stabilizing temperatures, all network infrastructure and 95% of storage services are back online. All premium disk storage has fully recovered, we continue to work towards mitigating the final remaining storage devices. The majority of underlying compute services are back online, with more than 85% of Virtual Machines that were impacted now back online and healthy. As a result, many customers of these services have already recovered - but we continue to work with downstream impacted services to ensure that they are coming back online in the next 2-3 hours as expected. Further updates will be provided in 60 minutes, or as events warrant.
This message was last updated at 19:05 UTC on 30 August 2023