No. The free tier isn't time bound. It's a configuration of the General Purpose, serverless service tier, and the free monthly amounts renew for the lifetime of your subscription. The earlier, ...

Microsoft explains how Hyperscale separates compute, logging and storage while retaining a single primary for writes and SQL Server transaction semantics.

Ransomnews found 484,142 publicly listable cloud buckets containing 18B files, including exposed credentials, database dumps ...

Backups are the last control ransomware attacks first. We ranked 2026’s 9 best backup & recovery platforms — Veeam leads, ...

Upgrade Cloud SQL for MySQL with sub-second switchover on Enterprise Plus, real-data read validation, and automatic endpoint ...

A research-paper retrospective explains how separating query processing, logs, pages and storage changed the scaling behavior of Azure SQL Database.

Microsoft’s cloud had a rough 40 hours. Between September 29 and October 1, 2026, Azure logged two separate outages that knocked gateway services offline across 18 regions and left Azure OpenAI ...

One day, the processing speed of the SAP system suddenly slowed down.Users flooded the help desk with complaints, saying, "It was working fine yesterday, but today it's not working at all."The SAP ...

Storm-3168 used compromised cloud identities to carry out a destructive attack against an Azure environment in minutes. The operation shows how a stolen application credential can give an intruder ...

Woo! I’m posting this live from the first ever European SQLCon (joint conference with FabCon EU), and the second ever SQLCon. The energy here is great, as the community comes together in Barcelona and ...

Storm-3168, an AI-orchestrated threat actor also known as JADEPUFFER, used two compromised service principals to delete 100+ ...

The JadePuffer ransomware operator is targeting Azure tenants with agent-driven attacks that conduct reconnaissance, steal credentials, and destroy core components. The malware emerged in July, with ...