Azure OpenAI

OpenAI releases GPT-Realtime-1.5 and GPT-Audio-1.5 models

New gpt-realtime-1.5-2026-02-23 and gpt-audio-1.5-2026-02-23 models available with improved instruction following, multi-lingual support, and tool calling while maintaining low-latency real-time interactions for voice-first applications.

23 Feb 2026

OpenAI releases gpt-realtime-1.5 and gpt-audio-1.5 models for voice-first apps

New gpt-realtime-1.5-2026-02-23 and gpt-audio-1.5-2026-02-23 models available with improved instruction following, multi-lingual support, and tool calling for voice-first applications. Available through chat completion APIs in Microsoft Foundry.

23 Feb 2026

Azure Communication Services Incident in Australia East & Southeast Asia

Ongoing investigation of an alert affecting Azure Communication Services in Australia East and Southeast Asia regions. Additional details will be provided as they become available.

12 Feb 2026

Azure West US Region Service Degradation — Critical Impact

Unexpected utility power interruption causing intermittent service unavailability and performance issues across multiple Azure services in West US region. Ongoing recovery efforts with some services already restored.

7 Feb 2026

West US Datacenter Partial Service Degradation - Azure Compute & Services Impacted

Unexpected utility power interruption causing intermittent availability and potential delays in monitoring/log data for resources in affected datacenter sections. Engineering and datacenter teams actively working on restoration.

7 Feb 2026

Service Degradation in West US Region

Ongoing partial service disruption due to unexpected utility power interruption in West US datacenter. Most services operating normally, but some resources may experience degraded availability as storage and compute components recover.

7 Feb 2026

Service Degradation in West US Datacenter — Multiple Azure Services Impacted

Unexpected utility power interruption causing intermittent availability and potential delays in monitoring/log data for resources in impacted sections of the West US datacenter

7 Feb 2026

West US Region Service Degradation Due to Datacenter Power Interruption — Critical Impact

Widespread service disruption affecting multiple Azure services including Web Apps, Container Registry, IoT Hub, Kubernetes Service, and Database services. Power loss caused storage cluster issues with ongoing recovery efforts.

7 Feb 2026

Partial Service Degradation in West US Azure Region

Intermittent service unavailability and delays affecting multiple Azure services including Web Apps, Application Insights, Azure Confidential Compute, and others. Restoration efforts mostly complete with some resources requiring manual recovery.

7 Feb 2026

West US Region Service Disruption — Critical Impact on Multiple Azure Services

Widespread service unavailability and performance degradation affecting multiple Azure services including Web Apps, Azure AI, Container Registry, IoT Hub, and Kubernetes Service

7 Feb 2026

West US Region Service Disruption Due to Power Interruption - Critical

Widespread service degradation affecting multiple Azure services in West US region, including Web Apps, Container Registry, IoT Hub, Kubernetes Service, and others. Power interruption causing intermittent unavailability, performance issues, and delayed telemetry.

7 Feb 2026

Service Disruption in West US Region — Multiple Azure Services Impacted

Multiple services experiencing a subset of customer impacts in West US. Engineering teams actively investigating the service disruption starting at 08:00 UTC.

7 Feb 2026

West US Region Service Degradation and Partial Outage — Critical Impact

Unexpected utility power interruption causing intermittent service unavailability, delayed telemetry, and data access issues for resources in West US datacenter. An unhealthy storage cluster is impacting service recovery.

7 Feb 2026

West US Region Service Degradation Due to Power Interruption

Unexpected power utility interruption in West US datacenter causing intermittent service unavailability, delays in monitoring and log data, and degraded performance across multiple Azure services.

7 Feb 2026

West US Region Service Degradation — Impact across multiple Azure services

Unexpected power interruption causing intermittent service unavailability and potential delays in monitoring/log data for Azure services in West US region. Services being restored in phased recovery.

7 Feb 2026

Partial Service Degradation in West US Region — Multiple Azure Services Affected

Intermittent service unavailability and delays in monitoring/log data for multiple Azure services. Affected services include Web Apps, Container Registry, IoT Hub, Kubernetes Service, and others. Most services recovering.

7 Feb 2026

Service Degradation in West US Azure Region — Multiple Services Affected

Intermittent service unavailability and delays in monitoring/log data for multiple Azure services including Web Apps, AI Search, Container Registry, Databricks, IoT Hub, and Kubernetes Service

7 Feb 2026

Managed Identity Service Failure in East and West US Regions - Critical

Service disruption affecting multiple Azure services including Azure Synapse, Databricks, Kubernetes, and AI services. Caused token creation and management issues across dependent services.

3 Feb 2026

Critical Incident: Managed Service Identity Failures in East and West US

Service disruption affecting Managed Identity and dependent services including Synapse, Databricks, Kubernetes, and others. Token creation, updates, and deletions impacted.

3 Feb 2026

Critical Incident: Managed Service Identity Service Disruption in US Regions

Services impacted include Azure Synapse, Databricks, Stream Analytics, Kubernetes Service, Copilot Studio, Chaos Studio, PostgreSQL, Container Apps, and AI Video Indexer. Token creation, update, and deletion operations experiencing errors.

3 Feb 2026