I have just received an email advising "Upcoming maintenance will affect single instance deployments of Windows Azure Virtual Machines." I have only recently setup my VM and while I realise that the intention is to do the maintenance "outside normal business hours" my VM will actually be more likely to be accessed in the period of downtime, which falls right in the middle of the first event for which the VM was setup. At the same time the level of availability required does not justify the cost and complexity of multiple VMs and "availability sets".
So my question is, how long will my VM actually go down for in this maintenance period? On initial reading of the email it looked liked it could be 6-8 hours (which would not be acceptable for my application), but am I actually correct in thinking that the VM should in fact simply reboot once sometime in this period and therefore will be offline for a few minutes (which is acceptable for my application)?
Thanks in advance for any reply.