Sudden spike in demand causes issues in Azure East US region A problem with resources for virtual machines is still affecting users in Azure's East US region after more than a week, frustrated admins have told us, despite Microsoft saying the incident is now resolved. Customers using this Microsoft Azure cloud region experienced allocation failures when attempting to create or update …
When you rely on someone else's computer and storage to prop up your business, you just have to accept that sometimes their computers will fail, just have to put your business on hold until they feel like fixing it (and don't lose your data in the process). Or have some kind of resilience plan.
More a case of: do not assume there is infinite capacity in the provider. You won't always be able to freely scale up instantly.
Or have some kind of resilience plan.
This 100%: if you are assume any one thing (one thing could be a WAN connection, a server, a server room, a cloud region) has 100% up time you are either deluded, or accepting of downtime.
(It is a reasonable business decision to say: the cost of going from 99.9% to 99.95% is is not justified.)
