Azure Australia in un-planned PITSTOP slowing cloudy storage and virtual machines

UPDATE Microsoft’s Azure cloud services are wobbling in Australia.

This morning, Micrsoft reported “a subset of customers using services with dependency on Storage, such as Virtual Machines, and RemoteApp in Australia East may experience higher than expected latency.”

Over the weekend, Microsoft reported that Visual Studio Team Services were wobbling. And on Saturday, the company reported that “Azure engineers have been engaged investigating alerts relating to Networking performance issues in Australia East and Australia Southeast.”

The incident report is an oddity because it says “Engineers have now confirmed that there are no issues with the Azure Networking infrastructure and are now engaged with partners in the region who are working towards mitigation.”

Which seems to say that there's nothing wrong with Azure, but suppliers have problems.

We've asked Microsoft if it has anything to add to the Status reports and will update this story if it provides any information. ®

Update Microsoft has sent the following scintillating update:

“We’re aware that some customers in Australia East may be experiencing delays when attempting to access services dependent on Storage, such as Virtual Machines. Our engineers are working to address this as soon as possible. For updates please visit the Azure Service Health Dashboard.” Thanks for that, Microsoft.

Updated update Microsoft's now told us that “Some customers in Australia East may have experienced delays when attempting to access services dependent on Storage, such as Virtual Machines. Services have been fully restored.”