Issue when creating Serverless projects in Azure eastus region

Summary

Issue when creating Serverless projects in Azure eastus region

Azure's storage component issues in the eastus region have been resolved. Consequently, Serverless project creation times have returned to normal and are functioning as expected.

• Started

  Aug 20, 2026 · 12:48 PM

• Resolved

  Aug 20, 2026 · 4:22 PM

• Duration

  3h 34m

• Severity

  Major

• ◐

  Investigating

  Aug 20 · 12:48 PM Elastic

  An issue affecting the creation of new Serverless projects in Azure's eastus region has been identified. Our team is actively investigating to determine the root cause. We will provide a follow-up status update within the next hour or as soon as the root cause is established, whichever occurs first.

• ◉

  Monitoring

  Aug 20 · 2:05 PM Elastic

  We have determined that the issue stems from an upstream problem with Azure's storage component. Upon examination, the impact is limited strictly to new project initialization times, resulting in longer creation times for Serverless projects in the Azure eastus region. We will provide a further update once the issue has been resolved.

• ✓

  Resolved

  Aug 20 · 4:22 PM Elastic

  Azure's storage component issues in the eastus region have been resolved. Consequently, Serverless project creation times have returned to normal and are functioning as expected.