Overview

• LinkedIn has abandoned its plan to move its data center technology to Microsoft's Azure cloud, a project that was codenamed 'Blueshift'.
• The decision marks a significant reversal for LinkedIn, which announced its plan to migrate to Azure in 2019, three years after Microsoft acquired the company.
• LinkedIn will continue to use Azure for some services and will focus on scaling and innovating its own data centers.
• Issues with the planned migration arose when LinkedIn attempted to use its own software tools instead of those readily available on Azure.
• LinkedIn is constructing an additional data center to handle its computing needs.