Azure stumbles in Western Europe, Microsoft blames 'thermal event'

Microsoft has warned of a “thermal event” impacting Azure users in its West Europe region, and perhaps elsewhere.

Microsoft, G42 announce 200 MW data centre capacity expansion in the UAE

Microsoft and Abu Dhabi's G42 on Wednesday announced a 200-megawatt expansion of data centre capacity in the United Arab Emirates as part of an over $15 billion investment commitment by the U.S. tech ...
Homeland Security Today

Massive Ernst & Young Data Leak Exposed Publicly on Microsoft Azure, Cyber Firm Claims

A massive 4TB SQL Server backup file belonging to global accounting giant Ernst & Young (EY) was discovered publicly accessible on Microsoft Azure.
CRN

Microsoft’s Eight-Hour Azure Outage: 5 Things We’ve Learned So Far

Microsoft’s Azure Front Door issues appear related to a faulty configuration change that bypassed already in place safety validations.
The Next Platform

Microsoft: Getting Margins From AI Means Sometimes Saying No

Hot on the heels of an updated contract with OpenAI that will see the AI model builder commit to spending an incremental $250 ...

Azure services back after outage: What 'went wrong and why' hours before Microsoft's Q3 results announcement

Microsoft's Azure cloud services have been fully restored after a widespread outage caused by a configuration error in Azure ...