Microsoft launches Arm-based Azure VMs powered by Ampere chips

Tech giant, Microsoft has now announced the general availability of virtual machines (VMs) on Azure featuring the Ampere Altra, a processor based on the Arm architecture. The first Arm-based Azure VMs as per Microsoft are accessible in 10 Azure regions today and can be included in Kubernetes clusters managed using Azure Kubernetes Service beginning on September 1. […]

Microsoft Announces New Azure-based Cloud Tools for Game Developers

Tech giant, Microsoft has now announced new Azure-based cloud tools at the annual Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. In collaboration with the likes of Unreal Engine, Perforce Helix Core, Parsec, Incredibuild, Blender, and HP’s remote desktop platform Teradici, Microsoft’s Azure-based cloud tools now offer a game development workstation in the cloud that can be […]

Microsoft Mitigated a Massive DDoS Attack Targeting an Asian Azure Customer

Tech giant, Microsoft states that its Azure DDoS protection platform mitigated a massive 3.47 terabits per second (Tbps) distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack targeting an Azure customer from Asia in November. Two more massive DDoS attacks followed this in December, also targeting Asian Azure customers, a 3.25 Tbps UDP attack on ports 80 and […]

Microsoft Encounters the Largest DDoS Attack in History

Tech giant, Microsoft has successfully avoided the biggest Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack in history. The company announced that its Azure cloud service mitigated a sum of 2.4 terabytes per second (Tbps) DDoS attack, which is the highest recorded attack to date. The DDoS Attack Was Carried Out Using 70,000 Bots Furthermore, Microsoft’s Senior […]

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