Microsoft’s Azure cloud has quietly become the focus of one of the most consequential tech-and-human-rights controversies of the decade after investigative reporting alleged that Israel’s elite signals intelligence unit used a bespoke Azure environment to ingest, store and analyze enormous...
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Microsoft’s cloud-based Outlook service ground to a halt late Wednesday, triggering a massive global outage that underscored just how vulnerable the modern world’s productivity infrastructure can be. For more than 19 hours, millions of people relying on Outlook.com, Outlook for desktop clients...
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Amazon Web Services, the global leader in cloud computing, has taken a significant step toward greater transparency and customer empowerment with the launch of its centralized Product Lifecycle page. This new resource, which aggregates crucial information about service trajectories—including...
A new chapter in cloud security transparency has arrived, one defined by the simultaneous emergence of major critical vulnerabilities and a commendable industry commitment to open disclosure. Over the past week, Microsoft confirmed the existence and subsequent mitigation of multiple, previously...
Amid the accelerating digital transformation of business, education, and society, few forces are as quietly essential as the modern datacenter. Behind nearly every online service, financial transaction, remote work session, and AI-enabled application runs the quiet hum of server racks inside...
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