Microsoft has fixed an issue with its Azure cloud service that affected some users attempting to move a cloud service from staging to production



From All About Microsoft:

At 2:35 a.m. UTC on October 30 (10:35 p.m. ET on October 29), the Azure status dashboard noted that customers worldwide were experiencing a "partial performance degradation." At 8 p.m. UTC (4 p.m. ET) on October 30, the Windows Azure dashboard noted a problem with Azure Comput that might affect service management operations across the world.

The dashboard explanation noted that "Manual actions to perform Swap Deployment operations on Cloud Services may error, which will then restrict Service Management functions. At this time we advise customers to delay any Swap Deployment operations." Users were still able to run applications and compute; it was the swap deployment function that was affected, officials said.

  Microsoft works to resolve Windows Azure compute issue affecting users worldwide