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Microsoft's Azure platform is running with a visible fault in its West US region, where intermittent connectivity failures and elevated latency have persisted since 14:44 UTC on July 23.
The case for Azure, and by extension MSFT's cloud growth story, rests on the premise that infrastructure failures stay contained and short-lived. Whether this one does is what the market will weigh.
What's happening in West US The affected zone is Azure West US, one of Microsoft's domestic cloud regions. Two categories of degradation are active simultaneously.
Connectivity failures stop traffic from reaching services entirely. Elevated latency allows traffic through but slows it enough to degrade application performance downstream.
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