From what I saw, started as routine maintenance, and we began seeing SQL timeouts and errors on SQL East, and then all our DB servers on SQL East just vanished.

From what I saw, started as routine maintenance, and we began seeing SQL timeouts and errors on SQL East, and then all our DB servers on SQL East just vanished. Stayed gone for 5 hours at least. I took a screenshot of the status console once it got updated with the outage info (several hours into the outage): https://mobile.twitter.com/iTrendTV/status/303959900164341760/photo/1 https://mobile.twitter.com/iTrendTV/status/30395990016434176... Pretty unhappy about the whole experience. Luckily, we have our own colo in addition to Azure. If you want to see people's reactions as this event unraveled: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/ssdsgetstarted/thread/231c1231-c634-448d-966f-40980c32460d http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/ssdsgetstarted...