Is Microsoft Azure down right now?

No. Our checks are finding no problems with Microsoft Azure right now. That verdict is live, and the banner at the top of this page carries it too. We re-check Microsoft Azure continuously using its official status feed, direct network probes and reports from visitors, stopping at the first check that gives a clear answer, and the page updates itself as soon as anything changes. A green verdict does not rule out a fault affecting only some users or regions.

The problems visitors report most often on this page are website / app down, can't connect, API errors, 5xx error pages, slow or laggy, DNS / site unreachable, no response / timing out and can't log in. Those are the options the report button offers for Microsoft Azure, chosen for how this service actually fails rather than a generic list, and the "user reports" chart above breaks down which ones people are picking right now.

Our checks run from one place on the internet, so a fault limited to your region or network can be real while our probes succeed. With Microsoft Azure specifically, Azure is regional, and Entra ID sits in front of all of it. An Entra problem locks you out of every Azure service and Microsoft 365 at the same moment, while a regional problem touches only the resources you run there and leaves everything else running. That is why this page reports what it observed rather than declaring the service healthy, and why reports from other visitors count toward the verdict.

For Microsoft Azure, try a resource in another Azure region, then try signing in to something that is not Microsoft. Failing everywhere including sign-in points at Entra ID; failing in exactly one region points at that region. A problem that follows you across networks and devices is very unlikely to be yours.

If this page shows evidence of problems, the fault is most likely on Microsoft Azure's side. Specifically: read Service Health inside the portal rather than the public status page, since it is scoped to your own subscriptions. Avoid redeploying during an incident, because a deployment that half applies is much harder to unwind than waiting was. Reporting it here helps other people see they are not alone.

Continuously, around the clock. Microsoft Azure does not publish a machine-readable status feed, so we cannot read a verdict from them. We probe azure.microsoft.com directly over HTTP, fall back to an ICMP ping if that is inconclusive, and weigh reports from visitors. That means we can tell you the service is unreachable, but not what Microsoft Azure says about it. The verification tier box on this page names whichever check produced the verdict you are reading, so you can see how direct the evidence is.

Yes, at status.azure.com, and it is linked further up this page. That is Microsoft Azure's own account of their service and it is the place to look for their estimate of a fix. We read it where we can, but we publish our own observations beside it rather than only repeating theirs, because an operator's status page can lag a problem their users are already hitting.

No. status.buzz is an independent monitoring site operated by LuzLab LLC, with no connection to Microsoft Azure or azure.microsoft.com. It reads publicly available endpoints and status feeds, and publishes what it observed. For account or billing problems you need Microsoft Azure's own support, not us.