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The Azure Dashboard is here, for anyone looking for updates on this: https://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/support/service-dashboard...

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I am not sure I trust that dashboard. Day before yesterday, when Azure SQL was down for the whole day, it took serval hours of 100% outages until the dashboard got updated with red "problem" icons. Before that, it was "information", "routine maintenance", etc.

Amazon likes to downplay their AWS issues as well (their console is always green), but at least they provide a very detailed postmortem, and issue credits proactively.

Have not seen that from MS yet, and it's been two days.

Any info on Sql Azure being down a whole day? We didn't see anything. This issue on the other hand, a real bummer.

From what I saw, started as routine maintenance, and we began seeing SQL timeouts and errors on SQL East, and then all our DB servers on SQL East just vanished. Stayed gone for 5 hours at least.

I took a screenshot of the status console once it got updated with the outage info (several hours into the outage):

https://mobile.twitter.com/iTrendTV/status/30395990016434176...

Pretty unhappy about the whole experience. Luckily, we have our own colo in addition to Azure.

If you want to see people's reactions as this event unraveled:

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/ssdsgetstarted...

Ouch, we saw a similar thing in the South when things went sideways late last year. We've taken a similar approach to Sql Azure, use DataSync to replicate to offsite warm instances.

Yeah I didn't see anything wrong with my services 2 days ago, which rely heavily on Sql Azure.

Right now everything is down.

And we are seeng sporadic SQL connection errors today (between Azure VMs to Azure SQL), so whatever the issue was - doesn't appear to be fully resolved.

Everything is down for you? All our systems that only need the WebRole and SQL Azure are doing just fine for us.

Some individual services are up. But my system as a whole is down with Compute failing to start and Storage/Service Bus completely down.

Ah ok. Yeah, I'm unable to deploy anything new obviously since that goes to the Blob storage. That's actually how I first saw this issue. Apparently things that were already running are doing ok, but you can't publish anything new.

This hit us too. The fact that it went down was enough to frustrate me but the fact the portal said everything was ok really pissed me off. We just launched our product the day before!

Just out of curiosity what were you hosting there? How have you found the azure experience overall aside from this latest issue?

Some data crunching servers, some VMs, some Azure SQL DBs.

Aside from the latest issue, been happy with the experience. Easy provisioning, scaling, plus Git deployment with easy rollback for web apps.

Azure Dashboard is down.

At least it is more honest than Amazon's version.

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