The Latest Breaking News from Azure

Microsoft had a large-scale server outage yesterday, impacting services powered by Azure. Today, Microsoft acknowledged that the outage was caused by a DDoS event, coupled with a faulty preventative measure.

Microsoft and Lumen announced a partnership that will expand the networking capacity of Microsoft's datacenters. Those datacenters have an ever-growing demand driven by AI.

The world came to a standstill this morning as many services reliant on Azure servers were affected by an outage. Microsoft's solution? A classic. Turn it off and on again.

Although OpenAI has pulled out of the Chinese market, Microsoft continues to offer OpenAI’s models through its cloud.

In the midst of OpenAI cracking down on developers accessing its AI models through VPNs and other forms of obfuscation, Microsoft's Azure China continues to give businesses a legitimate means to use GPT-4.

Liftr Insights spotted an AWS cloud instance with 896 vCPUs likely powered by 8-socket Intel-based Sapphire Rapids Xeon processor.

Investors are excited by Apple's new AI strategy. But should they be? Google and Samsung have already launched 'AI smartphones,' and Microsoft has launched AI PCs. AI in both tech devices will be a game changer over the next decade. Meanwhile, Apple seems late to the party and is in…

Oracle, Microsoft and OpenAI are joining forces to meet the expected demand from Apple Intelligence.

Companies should better understand how Azure Tags work, Microsoft warns.

Microsoft reportedly laid off its Azure team to pave the way for its AI advances and efforts.

"All Azure customers are at risk," researchers say, but Microsoft says that isn't the case.