cloud computing

The internet you use every day — from messaging apps and streaming services to online banking and government portals — runs on racks of servers, miles of fibre and a handful of companies that operate vast, power-hungry data centres: the cloud is the invisible engine of the web. Recent reporting...

A wide-ranging outage in Amazon Web Services’ US‑EAST‑1 cloud region crippled dozens of high‑profile internet services for hours on Monday, knocking streaming platforms, messaging apps, gaming services and even some bank websites offline and refreshing urgent questions about how much of the...

Kuwait’s government has moved from promise to program: officials and Microsoft announced a strategic partnership to build an AI‑powered Azure Region inside Kuwait, roll Microsoft 365 Copilot out across government, and seed a local AI innovation ecosystem — a suite of commitments the government...

Microsoft’s appointment of Dahnesh Dilkhush as Chief Technology Officer for India and South Asia signals a clear acceleration of the company’s AI-and-cloud-first agenda in one of its most strategically important growth markets, putting an experienced internal leader at the center of efforts to...

MARbLEX and Microsoft quietly formalized a strategic hand‑shake on October 15, 2025 — a memorandum of understanding that combines MARBLEX’s blockchain publishing ambitions with Microsoft’s cloud and AI toolset to create a developer-focused “Accelerator” for web3 games and to lean Azure...

Microsoft and NASA have taken a substantial step toward making high‑frequency Earth observation data easier to use at scale: the Harmonized Landsat and Sentinel‑2 (HLS) dataset is now exposed through Microsoft’s Planetary Computer on Azure, enabling direct access to harmonized, cloud‑native...

Microsoft’s Planetary Computer now hosts NASA’s Harmonized Landsat and Sentinel‑2 (HLS) archive on Azure, bringing a multi‑petabyte, harmonized, cloud‑native time series of 30‑meter surface reflectance imagery into a production‑grade environment where researchers and enterprises can run...

Cloud‑managed remote mailboxes are now being promoted from preview into production-ready use, delivering the long‑promised ability to manage Exchange‑specific attributes for directory‑synced mailboxes directly in the cloud and removing one of the most common reasons organizations kept a “last...

Microsoft Azure’s new NDv6 GB300 VM series has brought the industry’s first production-scale cluster of NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 systems online for OpenAI, stitching together more than 4,600 NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra GPUs with NVIDIA Quantum‑X800 InfiniBand to create a single, supercomputer‑scale...

Preview users reporting that OneDrive’s new “People” face‑recognition toggle is enabled by default — and that Microsoft will only let you turn it off three times a year — has opened a fresh debate about corporate AI defaults, legal risk and the practical cost of large‑scale biometric features in...

Microsoft’s partial suspension of services to an Israeli military unit has forced a rare reckoning inside Big Tech over the real-world consequences of cloud infrastructure and AI — and raised urgent questions about corporate due diligence, export controls, and the ethics of supplying tools that...

Microsoft’s hyperscale cloud battle has pivoted from raw infrastructure to who can package, govern and monetize AI at enterprise scale — and the 2025 scoreboard looks less like a runaway and more like a three‑way sprint, with AWS still largest by revenue, Azure riding enterprise AI integration...

Microsoft has disabled a discrete set of Azure cloud and Azure AI subscriptions used by an Israeli Ministry of Defense unit after an external review found evidence that elements of investigative reporting about large‑scale collection and processing of Palestinian communications were supported by...

Microsoft’s pivot from software stalwart to AI infrastructure powerhouse is no longer a strategy memo — it is the defining force behind a multitrillion‑dollar valuation and a torrent of capital, deals, and operational change that together make the stock one of the clearest risk/reward plays...

Checkout.com’s decision to adopt Microsoft Azure as the backbone for its enterprise payments platform marks one of the most consequential cloud-and-AI tie-ups in payments this year, promising faster authorisations, broader scale, and deeper AI-driven optimisation for merchants — but it also...

Checkout.com’s decision to adopt Microsoft Azure as the backbone for its payments stack marks a decisive step in reshaping enterprise payment rails: the companies announced a multi‑year technology collaboration under which Checkout.com will migrate key production systems and AI model operations...

Satya Nadella’s recent restructuring of Microsoft’s leadership and his unusually technical public reflections read less like a routine CEO memo and more like the opening moves of a strategic long game: one that could see Nadella transition from a full‑time CEO role into a position that looks...

Microsoft and Checkout.com have announced a multi‑year strategic technology collaboration that will see Checkout.com adopt Microsoft Azure as a primary cloud platform to scale its AI‑driven payments services — a move their press materials frame as a step to deliver faster, more secure and...

Checkout.com’s decision to adopt Microsoft Azure as the backbone for its AI-driven payments platform marks a clear inflection point in enterprise payments infrastructure — a multi-year technology collaboration that promises faster, more secure and more scalable payment flows for major merchants...

Microsoft’s place in the software industry looks both familiar and new: a cash‑rich, highly profitable platform company that trades with growth expectations baked into its revenue multiple — and, as a recent automated competitor snapshot illustrates, can be easy to misread when heterogeneous...