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Scalable, on-demand Linux and Windows virtual machines.

Azure Virtual Machines is healthy

Last checked just now · primary region global

Availability (90 days)

100.00%90-day uptime
Incidents (90d)
2
SLA target
99.99%
90 days agoToday

Region availability

Current health across major Azure regions.

East US
West US 2
Central US
North Europe
West Europe
UK South
Southeast Asia
Japan East
Australia East
Central India
Brazil South
UAE North

Incident history (90 days)

  1. OutageResolvedGHRP-84GMay 29, 2026 · 0m

    Multiple services – Power/cooling issues in West US 2

    Multiple services – Power/cooling issues in West US 2. Resolved — see the official Azure Post Incident Review (Tracking ID GHRP-84G).

    • Resolved · May 29, 2026, 12:00 AM UTC

      Azure published a Post Incident Review for this event (Tracking ID GHRP-84G).

  2. OutageResolved5GP8-W0GApr 24, 2026 · 0m

    Multiple services – Control plane issues in East US

    Multiple services – Control plane issues in East US. Resolved — see the official Azure Post Incident Review (Tracking ID 5GP8-W0G).

    • Resolved · Apr 24, 2026, 12:00 AM UTC

      Azure published a Post Incident Review for this event (Tracking ID 5GP8-W0G).

Enterprise resilience for Azure Virtual Machines

  • ✓Distribute VMs across Availability Zones and use Virtual Machine Scale Sets with health probes.
  • ✓Adopt zone-redundant load balancing; keep a warm standby in the paired region.
  • ✓Extend on-prem capacity with Azure Arc for consistent hybrid governance.