Microsoft Azure is the first cloud provider to meet the ISO/IEC 27018 certification, set by the International Standards Organisation.
“Today marks a major milestone,” wrote Brad Smith, executive VP for Microsoft’s legal affairs team on a blog post detailing the news.
The standard was issued in July 2014 with the aim to “establish commonly accepted control objectives, controls and guidelines for implementing measures to protect Personally Identifiable Information (PII) in accordance with the privacy principles in ISO/IEC 29100 for the public cloud computing environment”.
Smith said: “Microsoft is the first major cloud provider to adopt the world’s first international standard for cloud privacy. It’s another reason customers can move with confidence to the Microsoft Cloud.”
Despite the technical sounding name, the ISO/IEC 27018 adherence pulls Azure ahead of its competitors when it comes to personal privacy and security.
Here’s a breakdown of what Microsoft said the new standard gives its customers:
Last month, it was revealed that Microsoft achieved the highest year-on-year revenue growth when it comes to cloud, outperforming the growth of competitors Amazon Web Services, Google, IBM, and Rackspace.
New Q4 data from Synergy Research Group showed that really strong sequential growth at Amazon Web Services (AWS) propelled it to a five-year high in its share of the cloud infrastructure service market.
25 percent revenue growth from Q3 enabled AWS to grab a 30 percent worldwide market share in the final quarter of the year.
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