Microsoft's Azure virtual machine, cloud services down for many
On August 18, starting just before 2 p.m. ET/11 a.m. PT, users across the globe began reporting problems with Microsoft's Azure virtual machines, web sites and other cloud services.
"Starting at 18 Aug 2014 17:49 UTC we are experiencing an interruption to Cloud Services and Virtual Machines in multiple regions," noted Microsoft officials on the Azure staus page.
As shown in the status-page screen caputre above, Virtual Machines is the service most affected by the outage, with web sites down in several US regions and cloud services down in other parts of the US. "Virtual Machines, Cloud Services, Websites — Multiple Regions — Full Service Interruption," read the Microsoft-provided description of the issue.
