The provisioning failed a few times this morning:

   Reading state information...
   The following extra packages will be installed:
     patch
   Suggested packages:
     diffutils-doc policykit-1
   The following NEW packages will be installed:
     patch update-notifier-common
   0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
   Need to get 248 kB of archives.
   After this operation, 2,361 kB of additional disk space will be used.
   Err http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main patch amd64 2.7.1-4ubuntu1
     Could not resolve 'us.archive.ubuntu.com'
   Err http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main update-notifier-common all 0.154.1
     Could not resolve 'us.archive.ubuntu.com'
   STDERR: E: Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/p/patch/patch_2.7.1-4ubuntu1_amd64.deb  Could not resolve 'us.archive.ubuntu.com'

   E: Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/u/update-notifier/update-notifier-common_0.154.1_all.deb  Could not resolve 'us.archive.ubuntu.com'

But when I ping the server, it responds perfectly.