Autonomous system
AS8068 MICROSOFT-CORP-MSN-AS-BLOCK
Hosting ARIN
Summary
Microsoft Corporation
cloud hosting compute
One of Microsoft's core Autonomous Systems (MICROSOFT-CORP-MSN-AS-BLOCK).
Addresses here carry a broad mix of Microsoft services, including Azure cloud,
Microsoft 365, and corporate infrastructure.
What it's used for
- Hosting Azure-hosted workloads plus Microsoft's own online services (Microsoft 365, Outlook, Bing, and more).
Notable
- An IP here identifies Microsoft as the host — it may be first-party Microsoft infrastructure or a third-party service running on Azure.
- Microsoft announces from many ASNs across this block; which one carries a given prefix varies by service and region.
This description is AI-generated, best-effort context — not authoritative, and provided without any guarantee of accuracy. Source, and how to suggest an edit.
Address space
Summary
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 52 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS8068- Registry name
- MICROSOFT-CORP-MSN-AS-BLOCK
- Registrant
- Microsoft Corporation
- Abuse contact
- abuse@microsoft.com
- Registered
- 1997-03-31
- Last changed
- 2013-09-04
- Status
- active
Reputation
Classification and threat
Hosting Datacenter or cloud provider. Addresses are servers, not people.
No IC3 indicators Nothing from the FBI IC3 feed.
Threat data is alpha. Absence of an indicator is not evidence of good behaviour, only of absence from this one feed.
Elsewhere