https://www.zdnet.co...ay-meltdown/10482
http://blogs.msdn.co...ption-update.aspx
What caused Azure to fall down and go boom? Microsoft hasnÂt really spelled out what happened yet but, according to Bill Laing, MicrosoftÂs Corporate VP of Server and Cloud, ÂYesterday, February 28th, 2012 at 5:45 PM PST Windows Azure operations became aware of an issue impacting the compute service in a number of regions. The issue was quickly triaged and it was determined to be caused by a software bug. While final root cause analysis is in progress, this issue appears to be due to a time calculation that was incorrect for the leap year.Â