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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...

Thank you.

For nine hours?

Why not stick with AWS? (Just curious!)

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.