Active - Multiservice impact for Azure Workloads in East US
Impact Statement: Starting at 11:39 UTC on 24 April 2026, a subset of customers with resources in the East US region may experience failures or delays when provisioning, scaling, or updating Azure resources. This issue initially affected one availability zone in East US; as traffic was automatically rerouted and shared services were involved, some customers in other availability zones may also experience impact. Existing running workloads may also have intermittent connectivity issues to existing Virtual Machines and Virtual Desktop sessions.
Services with reported impact in East US
Virtual Machines and Virtual Machine Scale Sets, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure Application Gateway, Azure Virtual Desktop, Azure Databricks, Azure Data Explorer, Azure Cache for Redis, Azure Synapse, Azure Database for PostgreSQL, Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Flexible Server, and Microsoft Fabric, and additional services that depend on new compute allocation in the region.
Current Status: Engineering has identified a suspected triggering deployment and a rolling rollback is actively underway across the affected availability zones. Traffic is being rebalanced within the region. Mitigation is progressing; full recovery has not yet been validated.
Recommended customer actions
For new deployments where workload placement allows, consider alternate Azure regions while mitigation continues.
Consider pausing East US CI/CD pipelines to avoid cascading failures from failed retries.
Defer non-urgent AKS node pool updates and cluster scale operations in East US.
The next update will be shared within 60 minutes, or as events warrant.
This message was last updated at 17:28 UTC on 24 April 2026