Azure

Euro cloud alliance urges action on Broadcom as Microsoft mends fences

CISPE says post-VMware conduct raises fresh antitrust concerns

Networks28 Oct 2025 | 3

Microsoft parks Landsat and Sentinel satellite data in Azure's orbit

NASA's Earth-watching archives find new home in Redmond's cloud, complete with Copilot hype

PaaS + IaaS17 Oct 2025 | 3

Kubernetes kicks down Azure Front Door

This time outage was not actually Microsoft's fault

SaaS09 Oct 2025 | 19

Google reminds EU that Microsoft's cloudy licensing still stinks a year later

Mountain View gripes over slow-moving regulators while Redmond rakes it in

Software25 Sep 2025 | 11

US Navy: I can't quit you, Azure

AWS, Google, and Oracle admitted they can't support current setup

PaaS + IaaS24 Sep 2025 | 33

UK schools give system supplier Bromcom an F for Azure uptime

Management software stumbles at start of term, leaving staff unable to track attendance or reach parents

Public Sector10 Sep 2025 | 24

Azure budget alerts go berserk after Microsoft account migration misfire

Cloud customers left reeling as forecasts leap hundreds of percent

PaaS + IaaS01 Sep 2025 | 20

Pentagon ends Microsoft's use of China-based support staff for DoD cloud

'It blows my mind,' says SecDef

Public Sector29 Aug 2025 | 47

Microsoft can't guarantee data sovereignty – OVHcloud says 'We told you so'

Interview French provider seizes on Redmond's admission that US law could override local protections

Cloud Infrastructure Month27 Aug 2025 | 62

Azure apparatchik shows custom silicon keeping everything locked down

Hot Chips From hardware security chips and trusted execution pipelines to open source Root of Trust modules

Cloud Infrastructure Month26 Aug 2025 | 7

Sudden spike in demand causes issues in Azure East US region

'Although the incident has been marked resolved, in practice it lingers,' admin tells us

Cloud Infrastructure Month08 Aug 2025 | 2

Microsoft's Azure AI Speech needs just seconds of audio to spit out a convincing deepfake

No way this will be abused

AI + ML31 Jul 2025 | 5

Brit watchdog pushes to rein in Microsoft and AWS with 'strategic market status'

Regulators around the globe pay attention as results of 21-month cloud probe published

PaaS + IaaS31 Jul 2025 | 8

'Impossible hill to climb': US clouds crush European competition on their home turf

Local providers squeezed out despite market growth, leaving sovereignty hopes in question

PaaS + IaaS28 Jul 2025 | 25

Not so SaaSy now: Oracle sugars BYOL deals as AWS database tie-in goes live

Big Red incentivizes perpetual licenses with 76% savings as it parks racks in hyperscaler datacenters

Cloud Infrastructure Month18 Jul 2025 | 2

Microsoft offers EU cloud providers fresh commercial terms, staves off risk of litigation

Exclusive Agreement or otherwise expected from CISPE top brass before August

Cloud Infrastructure Month11 Jul 2025 | 4

Microsoft pulls plug on generous Azure credit program for startups

Up to $150K tier shelved, perks folded into two-track system

PaaS + IaaS01 Jul 2025 | 8

Microsoft is about to retire default outbound access for VMs in Azure

Interview 'Things will break,' Aviatrix CPO tells El Reg

Datacenter Networking Nexus24 Jun 2025 | 28

'Close to impossible' for Europe to escape clutches of US hyperscalers

Barriers stack up: Datacenter capacity, egress fees, platform skills, variety of cloud services. It won't happen, say analysts

European Supercomputing22 May 2025 | 95

Microsoft blows deadline for special Azure for EU hosters

Lawyers prepare to get suited and booted if 'Plan B' to address unfair competition claims is a no show

PaaS + IaaS16 May 2025 | 15

Microsoft set to pull the plug on Bing Search APIs in favor of AI alternative

Devs told to swap raw results for LLM-generated summaries as August shutdown looms

Software15 May 2025 | 38

Human error and power glitches to blame for most outages

Blackouts less frequent in 2024, still a PITA when the datacenter downtime demons visit

Datacenter Networking Nexus07 May 2025 | 8

Microsoft gets twitchy over talk of Europe's tech independence

Brad Smith commits org to facing off with US govt in court to protect them

PaaS + IaaS30 Apr 2025 | 105

Legal clock ticking for Microsoft over alleged software license abuses

With weeks to meet terms of settlement agreement, engineers in Redmond still don't have a product to show CISPE

PaaS + IaaS07 Apr 2025 | 10

Windows intros 365 Link, a black box that does nothing but connect to Microsoft's cloud

And it can be yours for a rather steep $349

OSes03 Apr 2025 | 126

Windows 365 Disaster Recovery Plus promises Cloud PC comebacks in 30 minutes

Presumably hosted by AWS?

Disaster Recovery Week04 Mar 2025 | 22

Microsoft Azure faceplants in Norway, taking government services with it

Locals see red as public cloud's service health dashboard shows green

PaaS + IaaS20 Feb 2025 | 15

AWS vacates its board seat at European cloud crew CISPE

... weeks after US titan was outvoted by other members to let Microsoft join the Euro cloud trade association

PaaS + IaaS14 Feb 2025 | 1

Microsoft catapults DeepSeek R1 into Azure AI Foundry, GitHub

Distilled version for Copilot+ PCs on the way, too – 太棒了!!

AI + ML30 Jan 2025 | 5

Microsoft joins CISPE, the Euro cloud crew that tried to curb its licensing

Exclusive From fighters to friends in six months, despite AWS voting against it

PaaS + IaaS21 Jan 2025 | 10

Azure, Microsoft 365 MFA outage locks out users across regions

It's fixed, mostly, after Europeans had a manic Monday

Security13 Jan 2025 | 10

Azure networking snafu enters day 2, some services still limping

Struggling to connect to the cloud? You’re not alone

Off-Prem10 Jan 2025 | 19

Google snags ex-Microsoft exec to helm cloud in the UK

Maureen Costello hopes to 'empower' businesses with AI

PaaS + IaaS08 Jan 2025 | 6

Google offered millions to ally itself with trade body fighting Microsoft

Exclusive El Reg has seen the presentation to CISPE members which sources say was intended to keep the lawsuit over licensing alive

PaaS + IaaS28 Nov 2024 | 12

Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 struggles to take off

If only the company in the title knew how to scale servers in the cloud

Personal Tech20 Nov 2024 | 42

European Cloud Competition Observatory created to keep an eye on software licensing

Exclusive Initiative follows Microsoft settlement with CISPE consortium

PaaS + IaaS20 Nov 2024 | 3

Black screens still plague Windows 10 Azure Virtual Desktop users

Meanwhile, even Task Manager is no match for the broken patch

OSes04 Nov 2024 | 8

Microsoft turning away AI training workloads – inferencing makes better money

Azure's acceleration continues, but so do costs

AI + ML31 Oct 2024 | 18

Microsoft accuses Google of creating a lobbying front called 'Open Cloud Coalition'

Seemingly dissatisfied with CISPE settlement, new UK-centric cloudy industry group calls for end to 'restrictive licensing'

Software29 Oct 2024 | 12

Microsoft's Arm-based Cobalt 100 CPU now live and powering Azure VMs

For general-purpose and memory-optimized workloads

PaaS + IaaS21 Oct 2024 | 5

Microsoft crafts Rust hypervisor to power Azure workloads

OpenVMM touts stronger security, but not ready for prime time just yet

Software17 Oct 2024 | 8

Keir Starmer tells regulators to chill as Microsoft exec takes wheel of advisory council

What could possibly go wrong?

Public Sector15 Oct 2024 | 84

Cloud giants point the finger at each other during regulator hearings

Those are some mighty powerful underdogs you've got there

PaaS + IaaS18 Sep 2024 | 4

AWS claims customers are packing bags and heading back on-prem

See? We do have competition, cloud giant tells regulator

PaaS + IaaS17 Sep 2024 | 72

'Hyperscale customer' to take massive datacenter site near London

Exclusive 'Commercially sensitive' incognito buyer has a lot more support than last group that tried to build a bit barn near M25

On-Prem13 Sep 2024 | 52

We know 'Linux is a cancer' but could CentOS chaos spell opportunity for Microsoft?

Analyst suggests Redmond's internal distro may one day fly the coop

OSes10 Sep 2024 | 56

Microsoft exec warns of business functions being sacrificed on the altar of AI

Too many IT modernization projects? Not enough budget? Something will have to give

AI + ML09 Sep 2024 | 24

Admins wonder if the cloud was such a good idea after all

As AWS, Microsoft, and Google hike some prices, it's time to open up the ROI calculator

PaaS + IaaS04 Sep 2024 | 141

The elusive dream of cloud portability: Why migrating workloads isn't so simple

Analysis Despite early promises, moving between providers remains a complex and costly endeavor

Off-Prem27 Aug 2024 | 18

When it comes to cloud, it's China against the world

Amazon, Microsoft, and Google dominate the west, but the Middle Kingdom plays by its own rules

Off-Prem21 Aug 2024 | 6

Azure Linux 3 hits general availability – but don't expect any frills

Microsoft's distribution gets a new LTS kernel

OSes02 Aug 2024 | 9

Microsoft services partly down Down Under for Kiwi users

Updated Maybe time to play the cloud hokey pokey? You put your workload in. You take your workload out...

PaaS + IaaS01 Aug 2024 | 5

'Error' in Microsoft's DDoS defenses amplified 8-hour Azure outage

A playbook full of strategies and someone fumbles the implementation

CSO31 Jul 2024 | 18

Microsoft remains massively profitable, investors await AI payoff

Everyone loves Copilot, execs claim – and hope they can say the same for Copilot Plus PCs

Software31 Jul 2024 | 14

Can't get Minecraft, MongoDB Cloud, others to work today? Blame that Azure outage

Shut the Front Door!

PaaS + IaaS30 Jul 2024 | 15

Microsoft's Azure networking takes a worldwide tumble

Updated Ready to talk it up to investors today, Redmond?

Networks30 Jul 2024 | 66