Windows Azure Suffers WW Outage Victim of Hack

Abstract of Microsoft Corp.’s announcement
Beginning Friday, February 22 at 12:44 PM PST, storage experienced a worldwide outage impacting HTTPS operations (SSL traffic) due to an expired certificate. HTTP traffic was not impacted. We executed repair steps to update the SSL certificate and expect HTTPS traffic to notice gradual recovery in many sub-regions. Further updates will be published to keep you apprised of the situation. We apologize for any inconvenience this causes our customers.

On February 23, Microsoft web site indicates its online storage service for businesses worldwide has "recovered to over 99% availability across all sub-regions."