So Azure supports Linux VMs?! Microsoft does so little Azure advertising that I had to learn this fact from their RCA. Apparently they do support it since 2012: http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/linux-and-open-source/micro... but it is likely that many non-users of Azure do not know this.
Although yes, their advertising of Azure and Azure features isn't very huge. The ads that I have seen are for "Microsoft Cloud" (http://www.microsoft.com/enterprise/microsoftcloud/default.a...) which is a combination of products and technologies.
I feel that Microsoft is on fairly even footing with AWS and Google Cloud.
You can view the recorded video on: https://hacksummit.org/
Another minor outage though, I think. They recently changed the permissions on /mnt, which contains the temp disk. Now various services that were using that for temp space fail to start. Easy enough to fix by chmod on start but still...