Hi Alan Niedelman,
We apologize for the inconvenience caused and we are glad to know that your server is back online.
The issue with the Azure SQL Managed Instance being stuck in the 'Startup' state has been resolved by initiating the startup process from the backend.
I hope this has been helpful!
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