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For what it's worth, I've been watching several Azure-hosted sites that I control and they've been coming back online sequentially (and are all back online now). Whatever they're fixing, it seems to be taking some time, but is progressing steadily at a good pace in the last hour.

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Mine have been gradually coming back, too.

Timing couldn't have been any better for me. Some Alanis material there:

https://twitter.com/bizspark/status/534858596748906496

Now I'll have to distribute between AWS and Azure, too.

Why not stick with AWS? (Just curious!)

They all have outages periodically, in my experience.

Yeah, that's the main thing to take away from these events. I've never seen a system (cloud, local, co-located, or otherwise) with 100% uptime, despite every effort to the contrary. Even sites like Facebook and Google have downtime. In the last few years that I've been using it, Azure has been at least as stable as other cloud providers.

That doesn't help with the awful timing though. Ouch. I just Buffer-retweeted your BizSpark tweet above, scheduled for tomorrow. Maybe a little bump now that you're back up and running will help ease the pain...

For nine hours?

Thank you.

Check out Softlayer. It has been more reliable than AWS in my experience.

Really? I manage several hundred VMs and their associated EBS volumes on AWS and we've had 0 problems. Also no problems with S3. Ever.

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