Microsoft's AI infrastructure spending to meet growing cloud services demand is outpacing Wall Street expectations, deepening investor fears about the costs of sustaining the boom.

Microsoft CFO Amy Hood acknowledged that surging AI demand has left Azure "short on capacity," likely limiting cloud revenue growth despite the company's strong first-quarter results and record $77.7 billion in revenue.

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Microsoft has confirmed that an outage of its Azure cloud computing service resulted in numerous services being knocked offline around the world.

Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) delivered first-quarter results that exceeded expectations, driven by powerful growth in its cloud and artificial intelligence businesses, but shares slipped over 2% in premarket trading Thursday as investors reacted to the company’s plans to ramp up spending on AI infrastructure.

Microsoft is improving the landscape of cloud computing with the introduction of Azure Boost. It is a new hardware upgrade from Microsoft, designed to elevate virtual machine performance on the Azure cloud platform. In a recent announcement, the tech giant ...

The move comes just days after Microsoft launched Windows Azure as a paid service after months in beta and trials. Azure is Microsoft's cloud platform built to rival the likes of Google and Amazon, dominant players in the emerging cloud computing game.

Beyond the headline numbers, investors focus heavily on growth for Microsoft's Azure cloud-computing business — and that came up short this time around. Microsoft reported 31% growth for Azure in constant currency. Analysts tracked by FactSet had been ...

Hardware-backed confidential computing in Microsoft Azure now includes protected environments for VMs, containers, and GPUs, without the need to write specialized code. One of the biggest challenges facing any enterprise using the public cloud is the fact ...