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Comment by rospaya | Hacker News Reader

An interesting amount of "MS is winning over AWS" articles these days. Not buying any of it.

According to revenue estimates at the end of the article, AWS market share is more than twice that of Azure, so "winning" is a big word...

Also note that Azure revenue reports usually includes consulting work so the difference in market is even much larger than that.

Also note numbers are Azure + O365

Also note revenue includes `internal spending` :D

Some more anecdata - but in the 'enterprisey' world whenever someone is talking about moving some existing stuff into the cloud, they are always moving to Azure.

Microsoft knows how to sell to those sort of customers, so it's entirely plausible that they have extended that reputation and sales approach to Azure.

Especially with an article of buzzfeednews trending about fake news for hire.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/disinfor...

Companies starting from scratch may prefer amazon primarily, enterprise customers who are finally getting in the bandwagon are probably preferring azure because of things like O365 and azure AD with SSO, in-tune etc. They also tend to integrate with third parties better, at least initially (Box for example, if you take into consideration legacy documents).

The real question is how well those services are performing as gateway drugs. Anyone who's an O365 customer is an Azure customer because of Azure AD. It was smart of them to leverage it but this rings hollow. There are plenty of enterprises and medium sized businesses out there with O365/Azure AD and use AWS and/or Google for essentially everything else, particularly the customer-facing applications.

The corp IT departments probably have a lot more inherent trust for Microsoft so I can see a lot of internal workloads moving into Azure regardless. I know they're working hard to leverage their existing deals with these departments or enlisting clueless executives to nab that juicy cloud scale application the company is actually making money on though.

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