For what it's worth, I've been watching several Azure-hosted sites that I control and they've been coming back online sequentially (and are all back online now). Whatever they're fixing, it seems to be taking some time, but is progressing steadily at a good pace in the last hour.
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...
