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> I wonder how many customers Azure just lost do to their unexpected 2 day fiasco

Amazon had a number of EBS fiascoes and survived just fine. I'd expect Azure to do the same.

Each of Amazon's high profile failures did have many people formulating previously non-existent escape plans though, and there are now several alternatives in this space that can offer the same scale.

It's obviously not going to destroy anyone's business, but there is a lot more competition than there used to be.

After hours of no response on the microsoft forums, VM's just started working again. I didnt change a thing, just poof.

FYI We had to reboot some virtual machines via the portal due to the issues in East US yesterday but since then they all work.