Cloud
Microsoft buys 4% of London Stock Exchange; LSEG to spend $2.8bn on cloud
Two will co-develop new analytics services, migrate data infrastructre to Azure
Enterprise IT
Extra $800m energy costs zap Microsoft earnings forecasts
Rising energy costs will sting Microsoft for $800 million this financial year according to the firm, as it saw slightly slower growth of its Azure cloud business in its Q1 results. In its earnings call CFO Amy Hood noted Microsoft's energy costs will escalate throughout the year, saying
Cybersecurity
Microsoft data breach "BlueBleed" exposes 2.4TB of customer data
Customers being told GDPR disclosure unnecessary
Cloud
This Azure bug is a perfect CVSS 10, gives you control over K8s clusters
A critical vulnerability in an Azure tool that lets users manage Kubernetes clusters can be exploited remotely without authentication to gain administrative control over Kubernetes clusters, as well as Azure edge devices. The vulnerability, allocated a maximum possible CVSS (severity rating) score of 10 has been allocated CVE-2022-37968. It is
Featured
Bad Ubuntu update crashes global Azure Kubernetes services
Canonical pulls update, as MS suggests rebooting affected VMs.
Cloud
Azure rolls out Ampere Arm-based VMs, touting large energy efficiency, performance gains
Microsoft has joined Oracle and Google in now offering Ampere Altra Arm-based VMs to customers. Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines (VMs) running on Arm-based processors are Generally Available (GA) as of September 1, with the VMs "engineered to efficiently run scale-out, cloud-native workloads" Microsoft said. Pricing varies depending on
Cloud
Google Cloud losses slump to $858 million
Wasn't cloud meant to be a cash machine? Alphabet executives say they're unconcerned...
Cybersecurity
MSFT moves on cross-tenant Azure hardening as shocking "SynLapse" exploit details released
Orca Security takes Azure Synapse off its naughty list after six-month investigation.
Cybersecurity
Microsoft mauled over fresh cross-tenant vulnerability
"This is a major attack surface and not consistent with the level of security that public cloud customers expect."
Cloud
Troy Hunt's Azure bill shock is a cautionary tale for our distracted times
Cloud-bitter? Not at all. Let alerts be your friend...
Cybersecurity
"Keys to the cloud" stored in plain text in Azure AD security blooper
"It is best to assume that the credentials may have been compromised..."
Cybersecurity
European Azure customer hit by record 2.4 Tbps DDoS attack
Microsoft shrugs off attack