Elastic Cloud change history: Issue when creating Serverless projects in Azure eastus region

Elastic Cloud reported a major incident affecting new Serverless project initialization in Azure eastus, causing longer creation times due to an upstream Azure storage component issue. It started at 2026-08-20 12:48 UTC and lasted 3 h 34 min, resolving at 2026-08-20 16:22 UTC after Azure's storage issues were resolved and creation times returned to normal.