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Is Azure Virtual Machines down right now?

Unknown. Azure Virtual Machines does not have a conclusive current status. A single-runtime HTTP reachability check succeeded; no fresh official status confirms whole-service health. No current vendor status signal: vendor status was last polled on 2026-09-07, more than 7 days ago. The most recent attempt on 2026-09-28 could not be acquired.

Status as of Sep 28, 2026 10:20 UTC

Unknown

Azure Virtual Machines: status unknown

As of Sep 28, 2026 10:20 UTC

No product check is currently qualified to corroborate an incident for this service. Overall service status has not been established.

Reports 24h

0

Last incident

Aug 14, 2026 06:32 UTC

Trend

0/15m

Monitoring

Coverage gap

Observed health

Unknown

No samples qualify for a combined success and latency score.

Evidence strength

No current issue evidence

No current corroborated or observed finding.

Evidence describes support for an issue, not its outage probability.

How this score works

100 × successful samples within the latency target ÷ assessed samples. Targets use a historical operation-latency baseline and are heuristic. Server failures count as failed samples; successful responses without a qualified target are shown separately. Only named operations are measured. Vendor statements, report volume, forecasts and incident records do not add score points.

A component issue stays visible even when other operations pass. Forecasts are separate from current health.

30 days incident history

Daily incident severity and duration for Azure Virtual Machines.

0

Incident days

30

No recorded incident

0 min

Recorded duration

No recorded incident — health unknownLow or mediumHigh or critical
Recorded incidents remain visible regardless of current monitoring status. Days without records do not establish historical coverage or healthy service.
Showing available records within the selected range.

30-day outage frequency

Recorded incidents per day and recorded incident duration for Azure Virtual Machines. Hover a day for detail.

Aug 30Sep 4Sep 9Sep 14Sep 19Sep 2401234

Green baseline markers mean no recorded incident. These records do not establish historical monitoring coverage or verified uptime.

0

Days with incidents

0 incidents

Busiest day

0 min

Recorded duration

Report volume

0 reports in last 24H

10:15 AM01:45 PM05:15 PM08:45 PM12:15 AM03:45 AM07:15 AM00.511.52baseline 2

Issue types

No data

Top cities

No location data

Top providers

No provider data

Auto-drafted postmortem

Azure Virtual Machines outage on August 14 — 17-minute disruption

Aug 14, 06:14 AM → Aug 14, 06:32 AM · 17 minutes · medium

An incident affecting Azure Virtual Machines was detected on August 14, 2026, at 06:14 UTC, initially identified through user reports. The issue resulted in a 17-minute disruption to service. Normal operations were restored on August 14, 2026, at 06:32 UTC.

Peak reports
3
in 15 min
Total reports
0
during outage
Duration
17 minutes
until recovery

Impact

The incident was initially detected through user reports, with a peak of 3 reports observed over a 15-minute period. Specific issue types or impacted regions were not recorded during this time. Users may have experienced intermittent issues with Azure Virtual Machines. We appreciate users reporting these observations, which aided in the detection and resolution process.

Outage timeline

  1. Aug 14, 06:14 AM

    PulseWatch detected elevated report volume (medium severity)

  2. Aug 14, 06:14 AM

    Status updated: possible issue

  3. Aug 14, 06:15 AM

    Peak of 0 reports in 15 minutes (baseline 1.5)

  4. Aug 14, 06:32 AM

    Report volume returned to baseline — incident resolved

Official updates

  1. Aug 14, 06:14 AM

    Azure Virtual Machines status page acknowledged the incident.

    View official source
Draft auto-generated by PulseWatch when the incident resolved. Based on aggregated user-report signals.

Reliability

Not measured

30-day uptime

n/a

90-day uptime

n/a

Not calculated: Azure Virtual Machines is unknown, so there is no incident history to measure and no uptime figure is shown.

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Incident timeline

Scrub through detection, peak, status updates, and resolution.

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ResolvedMedium

Azure Virtual Machines incident correlated across 1 signal group: official/vendor.

8/14/2026, 6:14:26 AM · 17 min

06:14 AM06:32 AM
Detection8/14/2026, 6:14:26 AM · 1mo ago

Detected — medium severity

Azure Virtual Machines incident correlated across 1 signal group: official/vendor.

DetectionPeakStatus updateResolvedCrowd warning

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Signal quality

Live signal

Status
Unknown
Monitoring
A single-runtime HTTP reachability check succeeded; no fresh official status confirms whole-service health. No current vendor status signal: vendor status was last polled on 2026-09-07, more than 7 days ago. The most recent attempt on 2026-09-28 could not be acquired.
Coverage
Reachability and crowd signals only; not independently verifiable
Reports (24h)
0
Baseline / hour
6
Open threshold
3x

Official site

azure.microsoft.com/products/virtual-machines