Microsoft extends 'outage mode' for Azure Active Directory to bake more resilience into cloudy services But Redmond has bigger questions to answer regarding Azure architecture PaaS + IaaS24 Nov 2021 | 13
Patching Windows Server without needing to reboot is a handy feature – but it's only available on Azure Trampolines and Retpoline: Applying patches at the function level OSes23 Nov 2021 | 15
Microsoft previews Azure App Service Automatic Scaling, for when defining your own rules is too much like hard work What could possibly go wrong? PaaS + IaaS22 Nov 2021 | 5
Unit4 releases connector mesh as it sinks deeper into Microsoft's 'grizzly bear' hug Vertical differentiation helps users see the wood from the trees Databases17 Nov 2021 | 2
ChaosDB: Infosec bods could pull anyone's plaintext Azure Cosmos DB keys at will from Microsoft admin tools Black Hat Europe And they had a wildcard cert too. Still feeling secure? Security12 Nov 2021 | 11
Azure Virtual Desktop on Azure Stack HCI – for those who want cloudy remote desktops hosted on-prem Ignite We drill into what's available in this public preview PaaS + IaaS04 Nov 2021 |
If you're deemed cool enough, Microsoft will offer you access to Azure-based GPT-3 Ignite Text'n'code-emitting system still available from OpenAI AI + ML03 Nov 2021 | 2
How about a big dollop of Azure with that database engine? Microsoft opens up SQL Server 2022 preview Ignite The direction of travel is clear – cloudwards Databases02 Nov 2021 | 2
Microsoft wins JEDI contract, Amazon complains. Amazon wins NSA contract, watchdog says Microsoft right to moan US Government Audit Office upholds Redmond's protest PaaS + IaaS01 Nov 2021 | 12
Want to deploy a new Windows VM on Microsoft Azure? Today might not be your lucky day Users running non-Windows VMs or existing deployment not affected Virtualization13 Oct 2021 | 7
Azure Purview is a preview no more: Microsoft is ready to sniff your sensitive data Governance and compliance are the watchwords here Legal28 Sep 2021 | 4
WTF? Microsoft makes fixing deadly OMIGOD flaws on Azure your job Clouds usually fix this sort of thing before bugs go public. This time it's best to assume you need to do this yourself Security17 Sep 2021 | 32
Microsoft fixes flaw that could leak data between users of Azure container services No data went awry, Cosmos DB had a similar bug just two weeks ago Security09 Sep 2021 | 3
Microsoft Azure deprecations: API changes will break applications and PowerShell scripts Mark your diaries: 1 July 2022 is when stuff stops working Off-Prem03 Sep 2021 | 19
Microsoft sinks standalone Hyper-V Server, wants you using Azure Stack HCI for VM-wrangling Analysis Yet again, Microsoft tries to make your world more Azure-centric Virtualization31 Aug 2021 | 21
Azure's now-fixed Cosmos DB flaw could have been exploited to read, write any database Microsoft warns customers of ChaosDB hole that lay dormant for months Security27 Aug 2021 | 13
Microsoft reminds Azure App Service users that community support for Java 7 ends soon – shift to version 8 or beyond This is your one-year warning Applications26 Aug 2021 |
Microsoft slaps on some new Paint and previews Windows 11 on Azure Look away from those price rises and look at our new toys! Software20 Aug 2021 | 13
Edgy: HPE's first message from the International Space Station to Microsoft's Azure? 'hello world' Supercomputing above the clouds Edge + IoT19 Aug 2021 | 10
El Reg talks to Azure Data veep as Microsoft flicks the switch on Azure Arc for SQL Managed Instances Interview Longevity, PostgreSQL, and 'the default relational database of choice' SaaS11 Aug 2021 | 10
UK's Driver & Vehicle Standards Agency signs £15m in cloud contracts AWS and Azure cruise into government agency Off-Prem09 Aug 2021 | 7
Stack Overflow survey: Microsoft IDEs dominate, GCP and Azure battle behind AWS Most-used language? JavaScript, of course – though for a big salary, try Clojure Devops03 Aug 2021 | 24
'$6 in every $10' spent on cloud infrastructure is with AWS, Microsoft, or Google Fewer and fewer orgs want to run their own data centre PaaS + IaaS30 Jul 2021 | 18
Microsoft abandons semi-annual releases for Windows Server Special capabilities on Azure leaving on-premises users behind Systems28 Jul 2021 | 24
Microsoft reveals pay-to-Ping plan for advanced Azure availability testing Does charging for Ping pong? Maybe not in this case, as Microsoft's plan covers 'Standard Ping tests' that are quite advanced PaaS + IaaS16 Jul 2021 | 7
It had to happen: Microsoft's cloudy Windows 365 desktops are due to land next month The good: It's a Windows PC running in the cloud. The bad: It's a Windows PC running in the cloud SaaS14 Jul 2021 | 83
Microsoft hooks up with MITRE to map Azure's ATT&CK surface for 'proactive security' Amazon's AWS next cloud platform in line for adversarial tactics framework Security30 Jun 2021 |
Windows Server 2022: Azure Edition slips into Public Preview Come for a dip in our cloud, the SMB over QUIC is lovely Systems25 Jun 2021 | 5
Hyper-V bug that could crash 'big portions of Azure cloud infrastructure': Code published Now patched: 'A function that can be called with attacker-controlled data (which it shouldn't) and dereference twice a pointer (boom)' Virtualization02 Jun 2021 | 11
AWS Free Tier, where's your spending limit? 'I thought I deleted everything but I have been charged $200' Analysis Amazon's cloud arm criticised by users facing unexpected bills PaaS + IaaS28 May 2021 | 86
Azure anywhere: Arc adds App Service, Function apps, Event Grid and more to on-premises Kubernetes Build It will even keep working if Microsoft's cloud has an outage, honest PaaS + IaaS25 May 2021 | 3
Azure services fall over in Europe, Microsoft works on fix Updated One of these days we'll automate these outage articles with some kind of AI PaaS + IaaS20 May 2021 | 29
Space Force's data must flow: Microsoft Azure and Ball Aerospace demo satellite to battlefield linkup Warfare 365? Off-Prem20 May 2021 | 13
Keeping track of one cloud provider's data products is a 'full-time job' so forget mixing and matching, says Gartner Multi-cloud for data is too complicated Off-Prem19 May 2021 | 7
Fleet would Mac? Microsoft's Azure VPN Client for Apple machines hits public preview Azure Active Directory's tentacles wriggle into ever stranger places Off-Prem17 May 2021 | 1
Microsoft's cloud gets JAMstacked: Azure Static Web Apps greenlit for production JAM with a distinct whiff of Redmond, as you would expect Software13 May 2021 | 3
Microsoft bins Azure Blockchain without explanation, gives users four months to move Says picking a replacement is your next step. Seriously, that’s Redmond's first piece of advice. Eventually it recommends Quorum PaaS + IaaS13 May 2021 | 24
Microsoft reveals what a growth mindset does to the letter ‘A’ Logowatch Azure icon gets the Fluid Design treatment Off-Prem10 May 2021 | 22
BadAlloc: Microsoft looked at memory allocation code in tons of devices and found this one common security flaw Updated Integer overflows leave IoT, OT, medical gear vulnerable to heap-seeking missiles Security29 Apr 2021 | 52
Bumper third quarter for Microsoft as Azure revenue grows 50% year on year Cloud migration and winner-takes-all integration drive more coins into Redmond's pocket Off-Prem28 Apr 2021 |
Pssst! Wanna rent a cheap, off-the-books, third-gen Xeon Scalable? No SLA attached? We know a cloud that can help A cloud called Azure, which appears to be previewing a Chipzilla special PaaS + IaaS27 Apr 2021 | 3
Microsoft renews cloud contracts with UK.gov amid ongoing legal spat with on-prem licence reseller Lawyers, say hello to the Digital Transformation Agreement 2021 SaaS21 Apr 2021 | 7
Not saying you should but we're told it's possible to land serverless app a '$40k/month bill using a 1,000-node botnet' CompSci trio describe theoretical Denial-of-Wallet attack Devops21 Apr 2021 | 21
'Unhealthy' Azure Portal instances in UK West take a little lie-down over lunchtime A brief nap can do wonders when you're under the weather PaaS + IaaS20 Apr 2021 | 10
Microsoft pledges Malaysian Azure region after winning government cloud gig Complete with availability zones, coming real soon now after it turns local kids onto the cloud Off-Prem20 Apr 2021 | 1
Azure adds programmatic pricing API to help you sniff out global deals Seventeen currencies - not just the Greenback - are now just an API call away Off-Prem15 Apr 2021 | 2
Software in space race heats up: Microsoft eyes satellite image processing with Thales Alenia Space's digital image analyst DeeperVision software coming to Azure Marketplace Science07 Apr 2021 | 4
'Our hosted pools are under attack by abusers': Azure DevOps enjoys a midweek TITSUP* Crypto-mining jerks at least partly to blame Devops07 Apr 2021 | 8
If you can't log into Azure, Teams or Xbox Live right now: Microsoft cloud services in worldwide outage Updated It's not DNS. There's no way it can be DNS... It was DNS SaaS01 Apr 2021 | 37
Microsoft welcomes 'raddest' and most 'feature-dense' Kubernetes release to AKS, shows 1.17 the door Mere months to go before 1.21 arrives Devops01 Apr 2021 | 12
Microsoft customers locked out of Teams, Office, Xbox, Dynamics – and Azure Active Directory breakdown blamed Updated Redmond says gremlin identified tho rollback is taking longer than expected SaaS15 Mar 2021 | 77
Microsoft rolls out mask detection to Azure Cognitive Services. And yes, there is a noseAndMouthCovered attribute For those who find wearing the things so damn difficult AI + ML09 Mar 2021 | 6
Azure flings out free virtual trusted platform module for cloudy VMs Take that, rootkits and other low-level nasties - if they take a crack at fresh VMs, on certain instance types under a handful of OSes Security09 Mar 2021 | 2
Microsoft goes large with fifth Azure region in China Will go live in 2022 and ‘effectively double’ capacity in the Middle Kingdom PaaS + IaaS08 Mar 2021 | 3
Azure and AWS expand their cloudy Asian boot-prints Japan doubles up for AWS, Indonesia warms up for Microsoft as Alibaba and Google lie in wait PaaS + IaaS02 Mar 2021 |
Microsoft plugs Active Directory authentication into AKS on Azure Stack HCI Begone foul stash for the secret hash Software22 Feb 2021 | 1
You don't have clearance for that: Microsoft ups the paranoia with a preview of Azure Firewall Premium Reassuring the regulators Security17 Feb 2021 | 7
New Jersey blames Microsoft for weeks of outages, glitches plaguing coronavirus vaccine sign-up website Promised software may never work as specified, it is feared Off-Prem12 Feb 2021 | 24
Dev creeped out after he fired up Ubuntu VM on Azure, was immediately approached by Canonical sales rep Updated I always feel like somebody's watching me Security11 Feb 2021 | 125
Survey: Techies reckon open sourcery has better prospects than familiarity with a single vendor's cloud wares Dodging lock-in good for the career as well as the soul Off-Prem10 Feb 2021 | 20
I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can do that: Microsoft unveils Custom Neural Voice – synthetic, but human-sounding speech Out-of-work actors beware, Azure can take on voice-over duties AI + ML04 Feb 2021 | 16
Project Bicep: Microsoft muscles in on Terraform's territory to manage Azure resources with code 'We are using the word experimental right now' SaaS03 Feb 2021 | 5