Excellent news!
Now customers can get their work finished whilst the MS cloud is still up.
Microsoft has spun up families of virtual machines packed with GPUs and beefy compute muscle for Azure UK customers. The G, H and N series of VMs, which are aimed at applications from heavy realtime data analytics to AI, are now available in Redmond's UK region. Microsoft believes they will save Brit customers who need G, H or …
"How does this play against MS's under-resourcing of their UK data centres?"
Apparently it had little to do with under-resourcing and more to do with massive growth outpacing their ability to wheel in new kit. Microsoft overtook AWS in cloud revenue run rate last quarter.