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AWS and Microsoft launched a public preview letting customers privately link AWS and Azure workloads at up to 100 Gbps, completing the open interconnect spec's rollout across Azure, OCI, and Google Cloud.

At Hot Chips 2026, Microsoft and an accompanying arXiv paper detailed Maia 200's software-defined dataflow architecture, a 750-watt inference chip delivering 10,145 Tflop/s of FP4 compute.

A maintenance-system bug stripped IP routes from Microsoft's West US datacenter on July 23, knocking out Teams, SharePoint, and Azure services for about five hours.

Accenture confirmed a security incident after a hacker known as "888" listed 35GB of alleged source code, RSA/SSH keys, and Azure access tokens for sale on a cybercrime forum.

At Build 2026 in San Francisco, Microsoft unveiled Project Polaris to replace GPT-4 Turbo in GitHub Copilot, open-sourced the Windows Agent Framework, and previewed the Windows Agent Runtime and Azure Agent Mesh.

Microsoft's Digital Crimes Unit seized signspace.cloud and revoked more than 1,000 fraudulent code-signing certificates after Fox Tempest sold access to Azure Artifact Signing for $5,000–$9,000 per transaction to ransomware groups including Rhysida, Akira, and Qilin.

AWS moved its cross-cloud private networking service to general availability on April 14, turning a preview into production and a bilateral deal into what analysts are calling a de facto standard.

Databricks has made Lakebase generally available on Azure across 14 regions, completing a multi-cloud rollout of its serverless PostgreSQL database built on technology from its Neon and Mooncake Labs acquisitions.

The CMA will begin a Strategic Market Status investigation in May, examining whether Microsoft's licensing practices disadvantage rival cloud providers and whether AI integration into productivity tools could entrench dominance.

Databricks has made Lakebase, its serverless PostgreSQL database built on acquired Neon technology, generally available on Azure with autoscaling compute, high availability, and compliance certifications across 14 regions.