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My anecdata is that Microsoft used salespeople to talk to executives and give them a deal on Azure so good they couldn't pass it up.

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This is accurate. If you have a substantial Windows Server / SQL etc. spend via an Enterprise Agreement then MSFT will essentially give away their cloud services to you. I’ve seen crazy 90+ percent discounts on Azure and Office 365.

Still doesn’t change the fact that Azure isn’t a great platform to use, though.

I have an affinity for AWS because I worked there and liked the pace. But, agree with your last statement. At least 3 collegues (came from Azure to AWS) told me very highly about Azure when it comes to console and workflow.

Migrate your Exchange serve(s) to google suite or Azure, which one do you think is an easier sell?

Repeat for Random windows server to Azure and again for Office Live.

Ohh, you can ru Linux too and do most things people are doing with AWS.

It’s a pretty easy sell to me (and worked pretty well on the F100 company I work for).

Microsoft is pretty clear that they want people to move workloads to PaaS and SaaS - with IaaS (VMs) really only for "legacy" applications.

The migration from on-premise WSAD and Exchange to Azure AD and Office 365 is pretty painless - and once you've done that why wouldn't you use the rest of Microsoft's cloud based platform. That's the big advantage Microsoft has for most enterprise customers.

This is occurring at my company. That said I'm not too sad as Azure seems like a competent provider.

I'm not terribly happy at the VM startup latency, unreliability of actions (you have to double check if it really happened), and how things don't clean up nicely afterwards. Things may have changed, it's been a few months.

Yes, this (at the top level) was how they signed up fortune 1.

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