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Windows Server 2022 on AWS EC2 delivers familiar Windows enterprise capabilities inside Amazon’s elastic compute fabric, but building robust, performant, and cost‑efficient Windows architectures in the cloud requires more than lift‑and‑shift thinking — it demands an understanding of how compute...

Microsoft quietly shipped a compact but consequential Canary‑channel update — Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 28000.1340 (KB5072032) — that combines a small set of general stability improvements with a targeted storage reliability repair and a temporary experiment change to the Administrator...

Microsoft has released Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 28000.1340 (KB5072032) to the Canary Channel — a compact but strategically important update that patches a high-impact storage reliability issue, temporarily toggles an experimental Administrator Protection test, and begins re-enabling...

Microsoft has pushed a narrow but important Canary-channel flight — Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 28000.1340 — that includes a targeted reliability fix addressing Storage Spaces and Storage Spaces Direct cluster creation failures, a change with outsized importance for administrators...

Microsoft has officially authorized a supported mixed storage topology that lets Storage Spaces Direct (S2D) and traditional SAN storage operate side‑by‑side inside the same Windows Server Failover Cluster (WSFC), giving enterprises a practical bridge between existing SAN investments and modern...

Microsoft has quietly closed a long‑standing operational gap for datacenter teams: Windows Server failover clusters can now host Storage Spaces Direct (S2D)–backed CSVs and traditional SAN‑LUN CSVs side‑by‑side, giving organizations a supported path to modernize without abandoning existing SAN...

This article walks through a practical, production‑grade design and implementation for running a three‑node SQL Server Failover Cluster Instance (FCI) across three AWS Availability Zones using Storage Spaces Direct (S2D) built on locally attached Amazon EBS volumes — a pattern that brings true...

Microsoft has assigned CVE‑2025‑59184 to an information‑disclosure weakness in Windows High Availability Services (the subsystem that underpins Storage Spaces Direct and related cluster features), warning that a low‑privileged, local actor can disclose sensitive information from an affected...

RiverMeadow’s announcement that its Workload Mobility Platform now supports Microsoft Azure Local marks a notable development for enterprises weighing VMware alternatives and planning large-scale cloud migrations. The vendor’s pitch—faster migrations, hybrid on‑premises + Azure management...

With a legacy built on powering enterprises, datacenters, and mission-critical workloads, each release of Windows Server transforms expectations in IT infrastructure. Windows Server 2019, next in this proud lineage, generated intense anticipation leading up to its general availability. Marked by...