Customers based in our European-based Microsoft Azure datacenter are currently experiencing problems with producing and publishing content. One of the underlying Microsoft services is currently down. To avoid downtime on your published content, do not start publish process to re-publish updates. No problems with existing, already published content have been reported.
UPDATE NOV 16TH 14:45 CET:
Service seem to be back online and production and publishing is now again completing without issue. If you had problems with your publishing operation earlier today, please perform the operation once more to resolve the issue.