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Azure France Central outage impacting Cloud NGFW Services.

Minor Impact Monitoring Ongoing April 27, 2026

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Investigating Identified Identified Monitoring

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Monitoring
Azure has repoted that the affected services have largely recovered; however, some dependent services are still completing recovery and may experience intermittent issues while teams continue monitoring service stability.

Our teams are monitoring the affected resources to validate the restoration of functionality. The next update will be provided within 60 minutes, or sooner if there are significant developments.

https://app.azure.com/h/GHHC-K4Z/97cdb5
Apr 27, 2026 at 3:48 PM UTC
Identified
Azure Reported Service Disruption Affecting Multiple Azure Services in the France Central Region Including Service Bus, Storage, Azure Cosmos DB experiencing an interruption when customers encountered VM restarts, temporary unavailability, and intermittent access issues due to an underlying datacenter event.
Apr 27, 2026 at 2:38 PM UTC
Identified
Azure is currently experiencing a degradation in the availability of the Azure Cosmos DB & Storage services in the France Central region.
https://app.azure.com/h/GHHC-K4Z/97cdb5
Apr 27, 2026 at 12:31 PM UTC
Investigating
We have identified an issue with Azure affecting the Cloud NGFW France Central region for Storage & Cosmos DB issue which is impacting CNGFW Services.
Customers may experience intermittent service unavailability, degraded performance, or delays in monitoring and telemetry.

Current Status : Azure notified higher than expected latency, timeouts or HTTP 500 errors when accessing data stored on Storage & CosmoDB accounts hosted in this region. We are actively investigating and mitigation acti...
Apr 27, 2026 at 12:02 PM UTC
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