Update from Microsoft:
We would like to provide an update regarding the service degradation experienced on 20 August 2026 between 12:07 UTC and 15:45 UTC.
During this period, your organization experienced intermittent service degradation, including increased latency and failures during platform operations. The impact was caused by an infrastructure issue affecting a dependent service, which resulted in reduced service capacity and degraded performance.
Microsoft Engineering teams investigated the issue and identified the affected infrastructure components. Mitigation measures, including service failover and capacity scale-out activities, were successfully implemented to restore service availability and performance. Service health validations have confirmed that the environment has recovered and is operating normally.
At this time, the service has been fully restored and is operating within expected performance parameters. Our teams continue to closely monitor the environment to ensure ongoing stability and reliability.
Additionally, Microsoft is conducting a detailed root cause analysis and reviewing further resiliency and automated recovery improvements to help minimize the likelihood and impact of similar incidents in the future.
We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused and appreciate your patience and understanding throughout this event.