Azure OpenAI Service Intermittent Availability in Sweden Central — January 27, 2026
Action Required
Users in the Sweden Central region will experience degraded performance and potential outages of Azure OpenAI Service and related services, impacting application availability and potentially business operations.
AI Impact Summary
Azure OpenAI Service is experiencing intermittent availability in the Sweden Central region, starting at 09:00 UTC on January 27, 2026. This disruption is impacting a wide range of services, including compute fleets, virtual machines, and various Azure services, suggesting a significant underlying issue. Users in Sweden Central should expect degraded performance and potential outages until the root cause is resolved and the service is stabilized.
Affected Systems
- Date
- Date not specified
- Change type
- incident
- Severity
- critical