🔴 Microsoft's West Coast servers caught a case of the disappearing acts around 14:44 UTC. API Management, App Gateway, and half the alphabet soup of Azure services went full Houdini. Customers in the affected region are experiencing the networking equivalent of a dead zone—latency spiked, connections ghosted, and that warm feeling of watching your infrastructure pretend you don't exist. (Auto-resolved: no updates in 24h)

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Issues connecting to resources in West US

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Starting at approximately 14:44 UTC on 23 July 2026, customers may have experienced intermittent connectivity failures, increased latency, or difficulty accessing Azure and other Microsoft cloud (https://status.cloud.microsoft/) services associated with the West US region. Customers whose traffic traverses affected West US network infrastructure may also experience downstream impact. Impacted services include: API Management, Application Gateway, Azure AD B2C, Azure AI Search, Azure Bas