LinkedIn is moving to Microsoft's Azure public cloud three years after $27 billion acquisition

LinkedIn has run its services on top of its own infrastructure. Now it will transition over to Microsoft's Azure cloud, showing trust in parent Microsoft.

LinkedIn has maintained its own data center infrastructure since the 2016 acquisition, even though many other Microsoft services have adopted Azure.LinkedIn has 645 million members, up almost 50% from the time of the purchase.

Linkedin CEO Jeff Weiner, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and Linkedin Executive Chairman and co-founder Reid Hoffman.LinkedIn said on Tuesday that it's finally migrating computing workloads from its own equipment to the Azure public cloud, entrusting its critical data with parent companyThe move shows that LinkedIn, which Microsoft acquired for $27 billion in 2016, finally sees Azure as reliable enough for its services. Microsoft has emerged as the clear No.

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