Microsoft adds load balancing as Azure availability stutters

Microsoft struggled this week with multiple performance problems on its Azure cloud platform, while it also made the hosted load balancing service Traffic Manager generally available. Microsoft's public cloud had a rough time over the past seven days, as the compute, management, SQL database and storage services were all affected. The storage service was the hardest hit, suffering a full service interruption that started at 10:22 p.m. UTC (Coordinated Universal Time) on Thursday and affected use...