Microsoft Azure is having troubles again, the company acknowledged Tuesday night. According to a status update, Azure’s Traffic Manager was experiencing “a multi-region partial performance degradation.”

Starting at 18 Nov, 2014 16:34 UTC a subset of customers using Traffic Manager may experience latency while attempting to create or modify their Traffic Manager profiles. Customers may see 20 to 30 minutes for their profiles to become effective. We have identified a potential root cause, and are working to mitigate the issue. The next update will be provided in 60 minutes.

Traffic Manager applies policy to Domain Name Service (DNS) queries to route traffic most efficiently to the appropriate endpoints, according to Microsoft.

As of Wednesday morning at 8:30 a.m. EST, the status page reported that all “core servcies” were running normally but also mentioned “issues” impacting VM performance for some customers in Europe and an “extended recovery” in process for VS Studio…