West US Region Service Degradation and Partial Outage — Critical Impact
Action Required
Critical service degradation across numerous Azure services is disrupting operations and impacting user productivity, requiring immediate investigation and remediation.
AI Impact Summary
A critical incident is occurring in West US region impacting numerous Azure services including Compute, Storage, Batch, SAP solutions, and more. The root cause is a utility power interruption, leading to intermittent service unavailability, delayed telemetry, and data access issues. An unhealthy storage cluster is exacerbating the recovery process, highlighting a significant operational challenge requiring immediate attention to restore full service functionality.
Affected Systems
- Date
- 7 Feb 2026
- Change type
- incident
- Severity
- critical