If it's going to cost me about the same in terms of resources to target you and a bunch of other people colocated with you, it's a bit less obvious who launched it and why.

They weren't targeting Azure itself, per se, but some service which was hosted on Azure.

The IP address in question wasn't mentioned, so we're left to speculate what this was about.

lul wut?

https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-white-house-ballroom-d...

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/09/microsoft-contributes-1-mill...