In Norway East Azure were incapable of provisioning new VMs for several(4-5) days, caused by some IP issue. The only solution was 'try to provision in the night

In Norway East Azure were incapable of provisioning new VMs for several(4-5) days, caused by some IP issue. The only solution was 'try to provision in the night, and don't turn it off if you get one'. Their status page showed green through the whole period though, even though nothing needing compute worked. So that was cool....