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    Azure SQL Hyperscale: Faster Writes, Replicas and 128 TB Growth

    Azure SQL Database Hyperscale has spent years fighting an unfortunate implication embedded in its own name: that it belongs only beneath enormous, multi-terabyte applications. That perception is increasingly outdated. Hyperscale’s real differentiators are architectural rather than volumetric...
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    AI Driven Cloud Capex Sprint by Alphabet Amazon and Microsoft

    Alphabet, Amazon and Microsoft sit at the center of the hyperscaler sprint—and the Zacks Analyst Blog’s February 27, 2026 brief crystallizes why investors, CIOs and IT professionals are watching every quarterly number and capital-expenditure guidance through the same lens: AI is driving an...
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    Predictive Maintenance for Hyperscale Datacenters: Boost Uptime and Cut Costs

    Hyperscalers have turned predictive maintenance from a niche operational tactic into a foundational strategy for protecting uptime, controlling costs, and scaling operations across millions of servers—and the results change how datacenters are designed, staffed, and run. Background / Overview...
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    Q4 2025 Cloud AI Push: AWS Azure Google Cloud Scale and Margin

    The fourth quarter of 2025 produced a clear inflection point for cloud computing: after years of steady growth, the industry reaccelerated as enterprises moved from experimentation to large-scale production of generative AI workloads. All three hyperscalers — Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft...
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    Amazon's $200B Capex Reshapes AI Cloud Race and Enterprise Rails

    Amazon’s latest capex call was not a whisper but a cannon blast: the company told investors it expects to invest roughly $200 billion in capital expenditures this year, with the lion’s share directed at AWS infrastructure, custom silicon, and model development — a scale of spending that reshapes...
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    Azure Outage Highlights Control Plane Risks in Hyperscale Cloud

    Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform suffered a chain-reaction failure that began with a misapplied storage policy and ballooned into more than ten hours of service disruption, leaving virtual machine (VM) management, managed identities, and developer CI/CD pipelines partially or fully incapacitated...