Cloud
Critics bewail communication issues, supporters welcome dead wood-cutting, as CodeCommit, CloudSearch and several other services stop accepting new users.
An implementation error in Microsoft's protective mechanisms worsened the effect of a cyberattack, sparking a worldwide incident.
Project spurred by disaster Teams call was "slush fund for unrelated IT expenses"
New details of global mega-outage revealed, with Microsoft blaming disastrous "usage spike" on an implementation error in its own response to a cyberattack.
When Virgin Media O2 was facing scalability issues and demand peaked during its pre-sale ticketing events, it shifted to a cloud native paradigm with a focus on managed solutions.
Sundar Pichai: "The risk of under-investing is dramatically greater than the risk of over-investing"
Cloud giant wants to make sure model responses are useful and founded on a firm foundation of enterprise data, rather than wild flights of fancy