The beginning of Azure's troubles was documented last Wednesday at approximately 1:45 a.m. GMT when its service management component malfunctioned. The initial message on the outage, posted by Microsoft on its Azure service dashboard, read: We are experiencing an issue with Windows Azure service management. Customers will not be able to carry out service management operations. Microsoft continued with its updates at 5 a.m. GMT, when it assured users that fewer than 3.8 percent of hosted services had been affected by the outage. The company also said it was doing its best to stop the issue ...