Cloud Infrastructure
The latest Cloud Infrastructure coverage — news, analysis, and updates from the WindowsNews.AI desk.
Microsoft's $17.4B Nebius Bet to Relieve Azure's East US GPU Crunch
Microsoft has quietly struck a deal worth up to $19.4 billion with Dutch AI infrastructure specialist Nebius Group to secure large-scale GPU capacity in the United States, aiming to relieve the...
Microsoft: Azure Latency Surge as Red Sea Cables Cut, Traffic Rerouted
On September 6, 2025, Microsoft issued a service health advisory warning Azure customers that multiple undersea fiber-optic cable cuts in the Red Sea are causing increased latency and intermittent...
Microsoft Unleashes Free Copilot for Students at White House Tech Summit as Musk Boycotts
Microsoft dropped a bombshell at the White House’s tech summit on September 4, 2025: free access to Microsoft 365 Personal – including the AI-powered Copilot – for all U.S. college students for...
Microsoft Pours ZAR 5.4bn into South Africa’s Cloud and AI – Can Governance Keep Pace?
Microsoft has committed an additional ZAR 5.4 billion to expand its cloud and AI infrastructure in South Africa, anchoring a broader strategy that combines hyperscale data centres, nationwide...
AWS Pours $7.5 Billion Into New Zealand Cloud Region as Q2 Revenue Hits $30.9B
Amazon Web Services reported $30.8 billion in revenue for the second quarter of 2025, an 18% year-over-year increase, while simultaneously announcing a NZ$7.5 billion commitment to build its first...
Inside Microsoft's Quantum Cloud Gambit: Logical Qubits, Majorana Chips, and an €80M Bet on Denmark
Satya Nadella didn't mince words on Microsoft's July 30, 2025 earnings call: “The next big accelerator in the cloud will be Quantum.” The statement, paired with the world's first operational...
Microsoft's $13B AI Run-Rate Fuels Azure Growth, But Capex Pressure Divides Analysts
Microsoft's accelerating AI and cloud machine has hit a new gear: Azure revenue is surging past $75 billion annually, AI services have reached a $13 billion run-rate, and enterprise adoption of...
Microsoft Bakes Hardware Security and Quantum-Resistant Crypto Directly into Azure Servers
Microsoft’s cloud security architects have fundamentally reimagined how to protect data and workloads in Azure, moving from software firewalls and centralized appliances to hardware-anchored...
Another Microsoft 365 Crash: How a Single Config Change Broke Office.com and Copilot
Microsoft's Office.com and Copilot services crashed for North American users on August 20, 2025, after a configuration change went sideways — a rollback reversed the damage after more than four...
Leaked Microsoft Salaries Expose Stock Awards Driving Six-Figure Pay Gaps Across Teams
A massive internal compensation leak has ripped away the curtain on Microsoft’s pay structure, revealing that equity grants—not base salaries—are the engine of staggering pay disparities among...
Microsoft Arms Azure Cloud HSM with Marvell LiquidSecurity PCIe Cards, Targeting Regulated Workloads
Microsoft is significantly expanding its Azure Cloud HSM service with Marvell’s LiquidSecurity PCIe hardware security modules, a strategic move that embeds cloud‑native, high‑density...
Microsoft Taps Marvell's LiquidSecurity FIPS 140-3 Level 3 PCIe HSMs to Power Azure Cloud HSM
Microsoft has selected Marvell's LiquidSecurity family of hardware security modules to anchor its Azure Cloud HSM service, extending a years-long collaboration that already underpins Azure Key Vault...