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...