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Post Incident Review (PIR) – Power event impacting multiple services – West US

February 7, 2026 · 07:54 AM UTC – 03:42 AM UTC · Duration: 43h 48min

Affected Services

Azure AI SearchAzure App ServiceAzure BackupAzure Cache for RedisAzure Container RegistryAzure Cosmos DBAzure Data FactoryAzure Database for MySQL – Flexible ServerAzure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible ServerAzure DatabricksAzure DevOpsAzure Event HubsAzure IoT HubAzure Kubernetes Service (AKS)Azure Key VaultAzure MonitorAzure Monitor (Application Insights)Azure Service BusAzure SQL DatabaseAzure StorageAzure Stream AnalyticsAzure Virtual MachinesAzure Virtual Machines (Confidential VM types)Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps

Timeline

07:54 AM
Initial electrical failure in an onsite transformer, although various UPS batteries carried the load for several minutes.
07:58 AM
Customers began experiencing unavailability and delayed monitoring/log data.
08:07 AM
Datacenter and engineering teams engaged and initiated coordinated investigation across power, network, storage, and compute recovery workstreams.
09:31 AM
90% of facility power restored on generators.
11:26 AM
93% of facility power restored on generators.
11:29 AM
100% of facility power restored on generators with continued recovery of hosted services.
12:15 PM
Storage recovery started and dependent services started seeing recovery.
03:00 PM
Targeted remediation actions continued for remaining unhealthy services.
03:25 PM
Applied configuration changes to optimize processing of recovery events, to assist in expediting the recovery of compute services.
07:05 PM
Storage recovery was complete.
07:24 PM
Compute recovery system stabilized and fully operational, continued gradually restoring remaining nodes.
11:30 PM
Long tail of Compute nodes impact mitigated.
04:24 AM
All affected services confirmed mitigated.
03:42 AM
Power was transitioned back to utility power, restoring the datacenter to normal operations.