So, all of a sudden, my Azure cloud service (1 web role and 2 worker roles) deployments have gone from taking something like 13 minutes
6/22/2015 6:43:47 PM CreateDeploymentBySlot Succeeded 6/22/2015 6:29:54 PM CreateDeploymentBySlot Started
to taking 40 minutes and over
7/2/2015 12:19:29 PM CreateDeploymentBySlot Succeeded 7/2/2015 11:39:30 AM CreateDeploymentBySlot Started
to perform the same operation (CreateDeploymentBySlot) when deploying to an empty staging slot.
This significantly increase the time it takes to deploy my cloud service.
There have only been minor, non-azure related code-changes in the service since it deployed at a speedier rate.
I'm using the "Publish Azure Application" feature to publish to Azure (Visual Studio 2012). It's available as option "Publish" when right-clicking an Azure Cloud Service project in the solution explorer.
After the package is uploaded, it seems that nothing happens for at least 25 minutes, both with the VS tools for monitoring Azure services, nor in either the old or the new management portal. At around the 30 minute mark, Azure finally decides to start creating the VMs, and from therein, everything happens as promptly as it used to.
How can I establish the cause of this unpleasant delay?
