The cloud is crashing too often. However, if you want to be notified when something like this happens with Windows Azure, here’s the .NET Services Announcements page. Today we’ve got:

We are currently experiencing an outage of the account provisioning system for .NET Services and SQL Data Services (http://portal .ex.azure.microsoft.com). We are working to resolve this issue and apologize for the inconvenience.

I already subscribed to their RSS feed.