by Pradeep
5 days
Microsoft Azure’s Virtual Machine service today faced a 6-hour long outage. Between 05:12 UTC and 11:45 UTC on 13 Oct 2021, a subset of Azure customers using Windows Virtual Machines faced issues while performing service man...
by Pradeep
6 days
Microsoft yesterday reported that it observed a 2.4 Tbps DDoS attack targeting an Azure customer in Europe. The attack traffic originated from nearly 70,000 sources spanning multiple countries including Malaysia, Vietnam, Taiwan,...
by Pradeep
3 weeks
Microsoft yesterday announced a new program through which it will be granting Azure credits to open source projects to help with their testing, builds, and other development work. Each grant will be for one year, but the open sour...
by Surur
1 month
Microsoft says they love Linux, but it seems that love did not extend to ensuring they did not give super-easy root access to hackers for Azure installations of the OS. Security company Wiz’s research team recently discovered a ...
by Surur
2 months
Moving to Azure was meant to make company data more secure, but it increasingly looks like it means hackers can slurp up private company data at will. Reuters report that Microsoft has just been forced to notify over 3,000 organiz...
by Surur
2 months
We reported in February that Hewlett Packard Enterprise was sending a computer to the International Space Station and that device will be connecting to Microsoft’s Azure cloud. Now Microsoft reports that that mission has bee...
by Pradeep
3 months
Back in May, Microsoft announced the updated Azure “A” icon. The new Azure icon is based on Microsoft’s Fluent Design System, and it represents the unity of Azure within the larger Microsoft family of product icons. Inv...
by Pradeep
4 months
Microsoft today announced that AT&T will move its 5G mobile network to the Microsoft cloud. AT&T’s 5G core, the software at the heart of the 5G network that connects mobile users and IoT devices with internet and other s...
by Pradeep
4 months
In September 2020, Microsoft announced Azure for Operators, a new initiative to partner with communication service providers around the world to provide core infrastructure, combining Azure cloud, cellular and edge for the lowest ...
by Pradeep
5 months
At Build 2021, Microsoft today made a major announcement for Azure application services. Azure applications services including Azure App Service, Azure Functions, Azure Logic Apps, Azure API Management, Azure Event Grid can now ru...
by Pradeep
5 months
Last year, Microsoft announced Azure Communication Services, a fully managed communication platform that allows any developer to add voice and video calling, chat, and SMS text message capabilities to mobile apps, desktop applicat...
by Pradeep
5 months
At Build 2021, Microsoft today announced several new updates for Azure Cosmos DB, a cloud database service built from the ground up to power planet-scale cloud services and data-intensive applications. Last year, Microsoft announc...