Posts by dgappy

Microsoft begs you not to ditch Edge on Google's own Chrome download page

Google are no better

I'm not sure how different this is from Google constantly badgering me to use chrome when I read my Gmail from a different browser. I know el reg has a hate-hate thing going for Microsoft but all these companies are the same.

Ever wondered how the AWS leviathan develops software?

Interesting tone

Feels more like a paid for ad for AWS than the Reg's usual more cynical appraisal. So you do have your favourites eh?

Azure's now-fixed Cosmos DB flaw could have been exploited to read, write any database

Like many cloud services, not only in Azure but AWS as well (the ubiquitous S3 storage for instance), in Cosmos the most basic form of access control uses secret "keys" to secure accounts.

While this is a serious hack, the only accounts that are at risk of data breach are those that:

a) are using basic key based access rather than RBAC with AD

b) AND have enabled a public IP endpoint for their database

c) AND have disabled all the firewall controls on that public endpoint

'Azure appears to be full': UK punters complain of capacity issues on Microsoft's cloud

I've been provisioning stuff today, no issues. It seems to be related to which services you are trying to provision.