Azure

Many use the power of Azure and AWS for good. But threat actors have figured out ways to harness the cloud's utility for malicious intents.

Microsoft announced several new partnerships and capabilities for Azure Space. The company's tech is being used to take high-res images from space and to help respond to disasters.

Microsoft's quantum realm is getting a computational enhancement courtesy of Rigetti. Rigetti will be offering its quantum computers via the cloud to Azure Quantum users.

Microsoft Azure now claims five spots in the list of the 500 most powerful supercomputers in the world. One of those supercomputers is even in the top 10.

Peloton recently added support for subtitles during its live workouts. The feature is powered by Microsoft’s Azure Cognitive Services speech-to-text and translation technology.

AMD announced a continued collaboration with Microsoft. Azure virtual machines will utilize 3rd Gen AMD EPYC processors to improve security.

Microsoft and Canonical announced support for Microsoft SQL Server with Ubuntu Pro on Microsoft Azure. The support helps deliver a cost-effective solution for enterprise data management.

Carbon emissions are being tracked more closely than ever.

Last night, an outage caused some Windows Virtual Machines to go down for almost seven hours. Microsoft has shared its preliminary report of the cause of the outage.

Earlier this year, Microsoft mitigated a 2.4 Tbps DDoS attack. It’s the largest DDoS attack on record, but the targeted customer didn't experience any downtime.