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Is Microsoft getting a pass for Azure outages and security response?
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As we reported in early July, Microsoft's Azure cloud has a global shortage of computing capacity due to high demand for cloud services and the global chip shortage. Microsoft Azure has other problems too. There have been a number of service outages in recent years, including one last night Pacific time that took down Teams and other services for users around the worl...
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