Why does Azure give me an intermittent Error 503. The service is unavailable?

Question

I have an Azure service that has been running for a long period of time. It builds a word or powerpoint document based on arguments in the request and returns a uri to the

Answer 1

I get this error whenever I create an Azure Function with a storage account in the South Central US. If I use a storage account in a different region the function works.

Try a storage account in a different region than the one you are currently using to see if it resolves your issue.