From Saucy instance, here is walinuxagent's /var/lib/waagent/waagent.log Cloud-init is using ba5ce29e7b4d435f8d70ed5b7c471875 as the instance ID, but that instance ID is not unique when a machine is captured. 2014/01/12 08:12:30 Configured SSH client probing to keep connections alive. 2014/01/15 22:44:47 Windows Azure Linux Agent Version: WALinuxAgent-1.3.2 2014/01/15 22:44:47 Linux Distribution Detected : Ubuntu 2014/01/15 22:44:47 IPv4 address: 100.92.36.21 2014/01/15 22:44:47 MAC address: 00:15:5D:86:BE:4D 2014/01/15 22:44:47 Probing for Windows Azure environment. 2014/01/15 22:44:48 DoDhcpWork: Setting socket.timeout=10, entering recv 2014/01/15 22:44:48 Discovered Windows Azure endpoint: 100.92.36.60 2014/01/15 22:44:48 WARNING:Newer wire protocol version detected. Please consider updating waagent. 2014/01/15 22:44:48 Negotiated wire protocol version: 2011-12-31 2014/01/15 22:44:48 Retrieved GoalState from Windows Azure Fabric. 2014/01/15 22:44:48 ExpectedState: Started 2014/01/15 22:44:48 ContainerId: fc217d55-31e7-485e-a82f-75b2a90a1a0a 2014/01/15 22:44:48 RoleInstanceId: ba5ce29e7b4d435f8d70ed5b7c471875.utl-0115-s1 2014/01/15 22:44:49 Public cert with thumbprint: D3BCD6F2904D5E4B5E8155ED1E0A698C7B14F007 was retrieved. 2014/01/15 22:46:09 Configured SSH client probing to keep connections alive. 2014/01/15 22:46:09 Windows Azure Linux Agent Version: WALinuxAgent-1.3.2 2014/01/15 22:46:09 Linux Distribution Detected : Ubuntu 2014/01/15 22:46:09 IPv4 address: 100.92.36.21 2014/01/15 22:46:09 MAC address: 00:15:5D:86:BE:4D 2014/01/15 22:46:09 Probing for Windows Azure environment. 2014/01/15 22:46:09 DoDhcpWork: Setting socket.timeout=10, entering recv 2014/01/15 22:46:09 Discovered Windows Azure endpoint: 100.92.36.60 2014/01/15 22:46:09 WARNING:Newer wire protocol version detected. Please consider updating waagent. 2014/01/15 22:46:09 Negotiated wire protocol version: 2011-12-31 2014/01/15 22:46:09 Retrieved GoalState from Windows Azure Fabric. 2014/01/15 22:46:09 ExpectedState: Started 2014/01/15 22:46:09 ContainerId: fc217d55-31e7-485e-a82f-75b2a90a1a0a 2014/01/15 22:46:09 RoleInstanceId: ba5ce29e7b4d435f8d70ed5b7c471875.utl-0115-s1 2014/01/15 22:46:09 Public cert with thumbprint: D3BCD6F2904D5E4B5E8155ED1E0A698C7B14F007 was retrieved. 2014/01/15 22:54:32 Windows Azure Linux Agent Version: WALinuxAgent-1.3.2 2014/01/15 22:54:32 Linux Distribution Detected : Ubuntu 2014/01/15 22:54:32 IPv4 address: 100.92.38.42 2014/01/15 22:54:32 MAC address: 00:15:5D:86:BC:79 2014/01/15 22:54:32 Probing for Windows Azure environment. 2014/01/15 22:54:33 DoDhcpWork: Setting socket.timeout=10, entering recv 2014/01/15 22:54:33 Discovered Windows Azure endpoint: 100.92.38.150 2014/01/15 22:54:33 WARNING:Newer wire protocol version detected. Please consider updating waagent. 2014/01/15 22:54:33 Negotiated wire protocol version: 2011-12-31 2014/01/15 22:54:33 Retrieved GoalState from Windows Azure Fabric. 2014/01/15 22:54:33 ExpectedState: Started 2014/01/15 22:54:33 ContainerId: 6a3ea5a9-6f7c-422f-a026-e6b5eb8f0fe5 2014/01/15 22:54:33 RoleInstanceId: fd9cfa887ac24eeab7efc8e5b48d799a.utl-0115-utl-0115-s1-A1 2014/01/15 22:54:33 Public cert with thumbprint: D3BCD6F2904D5E4B5E8155ED1E0A698C7B14F007 was retrieved.