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> The narrative—and it is dead wrong—repeated relentlessly and tirelessly by many in the media and amplified by some analysts that Amazon is the runaway winner in the cloud is baseless, sloppy and terribly misleading

I honestly would have guessed Amazon was leading.

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This appears to be an interesting comparison. Microsoft Cloud includes Office 365 subscriptions.. Which can have some 'cloud' components, but also gets installed on your PC. Likewise, I have never heard of someone running a startup out of salesforce.com, or Oracle.com. I would guess they are cloud based offerings of their software stacks.

I guess 'cloud' can be said about all of them, but as a tech, I would consider true 'cloud' to be full Infrastructure as a Service.. not just applications as a service.

I completely agree.

Microsoft and this article try very hard to fuzz the meaning of "cloud computing" to make their numbers look prettier. If we start counting Office 365, than Gmail should also be counted, as is Amazon Prime related products (Cloud Drive, for example). Why stop there? Isn't the whole Google search on "the cloud"? Isn't the whole Amazon retail shopping on "the cloud"?

Counting only AWS and GCP against "Microsoft cloud" and salesforce is more financial marketing than anything else.

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