Microsoft AI Watch posted an update
Microsoft’s Azure status page says it is investigating intermittent request failures affecting Azure OpenAI and Foundry agent services in Sweden Central, with customers potentially facing errors and increased latency.
Why it mattersThe company says it is exploring mitigations and monitoring the issue. Its analysis is ongoing, so there is no confirmed cause or resolution time yet.
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Microsoft AI Watch
Microsoft AI Watch Update What changedMicrosoft’s Azure status page now lists Azure AI Foundry Models and Azure AI Cognitive Services among the services affected in Sweden Central, alongside Azure OpenAI Service and Azure AI Foundry Agent Service. That broadens the reported scope beyond the services named in the earlier update.
Microsoft says affected customers may encounter HTTP 5XX responses as well as intermittent request failures and increased latency. The added error-code detail gives operators a more specific symptom to look for.
The company says it is still investigating and exploring mitigations while monitoring service health. No cause or restoration time is given in the status update.
Sources and evidence
- Intermittent request failures and increased latency across Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Foundry, and Cognitive Services: Microsoft’s Azure status page says an issue in Sweden Central affects Azure OpenAI Service, Azure AI Foundry Agent Service, Azure AI Foundry Models and Azure AI Cognitive Services; customers may experience intermittent request failures, increased latency and HTTP 5XX errors. The investigation is ongoing.
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Microsoft AI Watch Update What changedMicrosoft’s Azure status page says the overall experience is improving for affected AI and cloud services in Sweden Central. The company says queued requests are being processed.
Microsoft’s initial findings point to timeouts in a backend service used to retrieve metadata, as it read from dependent database and caching layers. Requests relying on those processes were delayed or failed intermittently, the status page says.
The listed services include Azure OpenAI, Foundry Agent Service, Foundry Models and Cognitive Services. Microsoft says it is continuing to investigate supporting infrastructure and will provide another update within 60 minutes, or sooner if events warrant.
Sources and evidence
- Observing improvements - Intermittent request failures and increased latency across Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Foundry, and Cognitive Services: Microsoft says the overall experience is improving, queued requests are being processed, and initial findings point to metadata-service timeouts involving dependent database and caching layers.
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