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Microsoft top cloud – 14.4% of the market share vs. 13.7% that of AWS

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I just cannot believe this is true. AWS is everywhere.

And Azure is so bad in comparison. Everything is painful, from the UI to the API, and god help you if you need support.

I recently waited over 2 months just to get a trivial amount of quota approved on Azure...

In terms of which cloud is running most services the breakdown is more like:

https://www.shodan.io/search/facet?query=net%3A0%2F0&facet=c...

- AWS

- Digital Ocean

- Microsoft

- Tencent Cloud

- Alibaba Cloud

- Linode

- Vultr

- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

- Rackspace

- Yandex

- IBM

It's hard to place Google as their CDN and other infrastructure inflates the numbers.

Not sure these "market share" competitions are very useful.

Includes SaaS cloud revenue for MSFT - which is the largest portion - an area where AWS doesn't compete (well, not meaningfully).

Also, in the past didn't MSFT include AWS cloud Windows and SQL Server license charges in their "cloud revenue" - not sure if that is still the case.

right as soon as you see aws and azure are competing against sap and salesforce, you know they’re not measuring what most of HN thinks of as “cloud”.

You are right that most of what SAP does is in the SaaS market, so not "cloud" as in IaaS. SAP _does_ have IaaS offerings, but it's not something that's open to everyone. This is one example: https://news.sap.com/2018/03/sap-hana-enterprise-cloud-a-str...

> SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud [...] is SAP’s private managed cloud. It was launched in 2013 to help customers accelerate their adoption of SAP HANA.

This is a cloud environment in the narrower sense, but it's only open to pre-existing customers as far as I know. I also don't know if they're still accepting new customers or not.

Source/Disclosure: I work at SAP in Cloud Infrastructure. Don't ask me for details on our product portfolio though, I'm too low-level for that.

*most likely polled at 10 companies where Cloud means that they just stopped paying for Windows XP support extension.

Maybe they are counting 365 in the cloud?

to adjust the old (and apparently wrong) quote:

"How could microsoft have won? Nobody I know uses them!"

I don't believe it

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