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One significant advantage of AWS is that they have a very large, built-in retail customer with relatively demanding requirements. I've always been under the imp
by jonhohle 11y ago
One significant advantage of AWS is that they have a very large, built-in retail customer with relatively demanding requirements. I've always been under the impression that Microsoft doesn't really have a business that would lend itself to consuming its own services[0] and it's unclear to me whether or not Google uses their stuff internally.
0 - as an anecdote, I recall their salesmen coming to sell my employer their caching solution around 2008. I asked the rep I'd Microsoft was using their caching product on any of Microsofts web properties and he replied that they were not.
- abritishguy 11y agoXbox live runs on azure
- RubberShoes 11y agoSo does iCloud ;) (and also runs on AWS) http://9to5mac.com/2016/04/11/apple-icloud-in-house-inspur/ http://9to5mac.com/2016/04/11/apple-icloud-in-house-inspur/
- GeechieCloud 11y agoCertain, newer pieces of some of these services, such as the Azure Active Directory service at the heart of Office 365 and some of the newer, complementary Xbox Live services are hosted on Azure. But the core Bing, Office 365 Commercial and Consumer offerings and Xbox Live services are not hosted on Azure. (same article as above)
- mrep 11y agoIt seems like amazon is using an "all in" strategy which seems to be working out pretty well. They first focused on porting the entire amazon retail website onto AWS which I believe they completed in 2011. They also went "all in" with the service oriented architecture for AWS. Both of these have paid off quite handsomely. Granted, that hasn't always paid off (we all know how the fire phone turned out), but the wins have definitely made up for the losses.
- sokoloff 11y agoOffice 365 relies on Azure as well (unclear how much of it, though)
- GeechieCloud 11y agoA number of Microsoft's own services -- including Office 365 business, Office 365 consumer, Bing and Xbox Live -- are not running on its Azure cloud backbone. They are still running on their own custom stacks and datacenters.http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-is-on-a-quest-to-move-more-of-its-cloud-services-to-azure/ http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-is-on-a-quest-to-move...
- sokoloff 11y agoSentence immediately after the two you quoted: Certain, newer pieces of some of these services, such as the Azure Active Directory service at the heart of Office 365 and some of the newer, complementary Xbox Live services are hosted on Azure.
- givehimagun 11y agoAzure dumped its internal caching product in 2014 and switched to Redis. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/lap-around-azure-redis-cache-preview/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/lap-around-azure-redi...