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I run a site that monitors cloud service availability. Based on VMs and Blob storage containers I maintain and monitor, the outage affected every US Azure region with 1-2 hours of downtime: https://cloudharmony.com/status-for-azure

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Wow, comparing that to AWS is staggering!

https://cloudharmony.com/status-for-aws

It's not as if AWS has never gone down (http://aws.amazon.com/message/65648/). It just hasn't had a major outage in the last 30 days.

Comparing https://cloudharmony.com/status-1year-for-azure with https://cloudharmony.com/status-1year-for-aws tells a different story.

I don't recall an AWS outages of this magnitude. Most cloud outages, including AWS tend to be data center/AZ specific.

you need to add in the new Australian Clusters

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