LinkedIn Abandons Migration to Microsoft's Azure Cloud

Company to continue using Azure for some services while focusing on scaling its own data centers.

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.