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403 Forbidden on Azure document translation endpoints

kristianandersen 25 Reputation points
2025-11-04T12:24:28.8633333+00:00

Today I am suddenly starting to receive 403 Forbidden errors when calling the /translator/document/batches/..... API endpoints to run document translations in azure.

As seen below, the exact same GET request errors three times with 403 and then 2 seconds after responds 200 OK as expected

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Is there anything wrong with the azure service right now?
I have seen this on different tenants and different resource groups.

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  1. Azar 31,610 Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2025-11-05T00:48:08.3833333+00:00

    Hi there kristianandersen

    Thanks for using QandA platform

    looks like a transient issue with the Document Translation service rather than something wrong on your side. The pattern of a few 403s followed by a successful 200 a second later means the backend is doing a token/permission refresh or hitting a brief capacity throttle. Since you're seeing it across different tenants and resource groups, that lines up with a service-side hiccup. check that you're sending the right region header if you’re using key auth, and add retry logic with back-off since the service does occasionally return temporary 403s like this. I’d also keep an eye on Service Health for West Europe, but based on the behavior it should settle on its own.

    If this helps kindly accept the answer thanks much,

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