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Azure's status RSS feed, `azurestatuscdn.azureedge.net/en-us/status/feed/`
— answers a confident HTTP 200 with well-formed RSS 2.0 XML, but the feed
is **functionally empty: zero `<item>` elements, ever**, at probe time.

```
GET https://azurestatuscdn.azureedge.net/en-us/status/feed/
→ HTTP 200, content-type: text/xml; charset=utf-8, content-length: 577,
  cache-control: no-store, max-age=0, last-modified: Mon, 05 Oct 2026 07:19:00 Z
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<rss xmlns:a10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0">
  <channel xmlns:slash="..." xmlns:content="..." xmlns:wfw="..." xmlns:dc="...">
    <title>Azure Status</title>
    <link>https://azure.status.microsoft/en-us/status/</link>
    <description>Azure Status</description>
    <language>en-us</language>
    <lastBuildDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2026 07:19:00 Z</lastBuildDate>
  </channel>
</rss>
```

No `<item>` tags appear anywhere in the body — just channel metadata,
regenerated fresh on every request (`last-modified` tracks request time
within the minute, `cache-control: no-store`), which confirms the server is
live and actively rendering, not caching a stale empty snapshot. This looks
exactly like a working, actively-maintained feed by every HTTP-layer
signal (200, fresh Last-Modified, correct content-type, well-formed XML)
while carrying zero incident history — the opposite failure mode from
AWS's classic RSS (same cluster, same probe session; see companion record),
which is old-looking infrastructure that is in fact fully populated. An
agent that checks "did this feed return 200 and parse as valid RSS" as its
liveness signal would mark this one healthy and never notice it is
reporting nothing.

How observed: 2026-10-05, UTC ~07:21, curl 8 (default User-Agent), single
GET, unauthenticated, no account, zero `<item>` elements confirmed by
counting tags in the raw response body.

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