[SeripisChad]

My dealings with Microsoft have been along the lines of we don't care, we don't investigate, we simply turn off reported accounts and play wack-a-mole. Our team was complaining from a decent sized Microsoft (a smaller state government, spending millions with Microsoft annually) and got that shoulder shrug of a response.

[c3534l]

From your own admission, they block accounts known to be abusive. I don't know how that's compatible with "don't care" and "don't investigate" - neither of which sounds like something Microsoft would plausibly tell you. What are you basing this impression on?

[yardstick]

Microsoft blocking accounts that are the source of abuse reports doesn’t necessarily mean Microsoft has investigated for themselves the validity of those abuse reports. At least that’s how I interpret what the op was saying.

I would hope they did investigate too otherwise it’s too easy to DoS a valid customer with fake complaints.

[efitz]

For a lot of reasons, cloud providers will never tell you how they investigated or what they found out. Telling you only has downside - either they give away information about tools & techniques, or they leak PII of other customers, or you engage them in a protracted discussion which will suck time away from addressing other abuse complaints, etc. So you will never get detail. That doesn't mean that they didn't do anything, it just means that there is no upside for them to sharing details with you.

[LilBytes]

Same here.

AWS has acted upon similar reports in the past, Azure may have but the lack of comms and delays in seeing any action (if any) hasn't inspired confidence.

[red-iron-pine]

This is generally speaking the only good thing I have to say about GCP -- they communicate a lot. Don't love all of the other stuff, but I can trust them to get back to me.