Recovery in progress for issues connecting to Azure SQL Databases in East US

Impact Statement: Starting at 07:33 UTC on 16 Sep 2023, you have been identified as a customer using Azure SQL Database in East US who may experience issues when trying to connect to your Database. Connections to databases hosted in a subset of this region may result in an error or timeout. Current Status: We have identified that during a brief period of time an underlying network infrastructure has suffered with power issues, resulting in a downstream impact for SQL Database in East US region. In addition, we have found some unhealthy compute nodes impacting our service on East US region as well. We have undertaken multiple workstreams to recover impacted instances including rebooting affected instances. We are seeing positive signs of recovery in both the underlying infrastructure and some of the SQL DB instances. At this time, most of the customers should already be experiencing improvements in connectivity and availability. We are actively engaged in mitigating any residual impact to ensure a complete resolution. The next update will be provided in 60 minutes, or as events warrant.