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I heard this a couple of weeks ago (on Hacker News), and I was SHOCKED!

I have worked for years as a .Net consultant, and I had no idea Azure had grown this quickly. A couple of years ago, I thought their entire set of literature was counter-intuitive, and I quit paying attention to them.

How on Earth did they grow to be in AWS's league so quickly? Surely just getting the "default Microsoft business" wasn't enough to put them at $1 billion ??

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Well they've kept constantly adding major missing parts, which likely added a lot to their market.

One month, web sites, another virtual machines, then Hadoop. Oh, wait, and mobile services. The list goes on; they've catched up with Amazon on offerings more or less.

Oh and let's not forget that Azure support is fucking awesome.

If you read the fine print, it states $1B in sales of Azure services and also Microsoft tools the run on top of Azure - including hosted Exchange and Sharepoint. It's not just $1B worth of compute like AWS is.

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