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Users of Microsoft's Cloud-Based Azure Compute Platform Are Affected by Availability Issue

Users of Microsoft’s cloud-based Azure compute platform have been affected by an availability issue. 

The service was down for 2.5 hours. Microsoft said: "The recent Windows Azure service interruption in the Western Europe sub-region has been resolved. We apologise for any inconvenience this outage may have caused our customers. The duration of the service interruption was approximately 2.5 hours and was resolved at 6:33 AM PDT. Customers who have questions regarding this incident are encouraged to contact Customer Service and Support."

Windows Azure 'availability Issues' Hit Users in Europe

According to the Windows Azure Status application, the service experienced problems at 11:54am.

The availability issue is a major embarrassment for Microsoft, which has only recently started competing head-to-head with rival Amazon's EC2 service for computing in the cloud. 

Last month, the company made a major announcement, announcing support for open source tools and the Linux operating system on its Azure cloud platform. The move could make Azure a viable alternative to Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Rackspace.

In March, Azure was hit by a leap-year bug which affected management services. At the time, Microsoft claimed most customers had their management capabilities restored within 12 hours of the leap-year 2012 outage, although for some users that didn't happen for more than 24 hours after the outage began.

Source: http://www.computerweekly.com/news/2240160280/Windows-Azure-availability-issues-hit-users-in-Europe
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Windows Azure 'availability Issues' Hit Users in Europe