4 ms·

> Azure seems to be doing well and some people expect it to overtake AWS sooner rather than later in market share. Source? Edit: Sorry, that was lazy of me. G

by nathas 10y ago

> Azure seems to be doing well and some people expect it to overtake AWS sooner rather than later in market share. Source? Edit: Sorry, that was lazy of me. Googled: https://mspoweruser.com/cio-surey-finds-microsoft-azure-will-overtake-amazon-aws-infrastructure-service/ https://mspoweruser.com/cio-surey-finds-microsoft-azure-will... A bit of a biased source, "mspoweruser". Read a bit more.. We'll have to see how the offerings change or evolve in the next 5 years. Edit 2: https://rcpmag.com/articles/2016/08/02/microsoft-behind-aws-in-cloud.aspx https://rcpmag.com/articles/2016/08/02/microsoft-behind-aws-... AWS is still > 30% of the overall market, Azure hitting around ~9%.

tedmiston 10y ago
I'll second the "citation needed" for Azure overtaking AWS "soon".
gr3yh47 10y ago
Azure reliability is near the bottom of the market. I doubt they'll be overtaking aws.
Spooky23 10y ago
It's all based on Morgan Stanley’s "2016 CIO Survey". It doesn't appear to be publicly available. I've been the drone filling out surveys like this for CIOs in the past. Sometimes those surveys ask these sorts of things indirectly, especially if it's a paid survey. For example, they might assume that O365 utilization drives Azure adoption. (Behind the scenes O365 auth is an Azure service) Another example would be asking if your org has MSDN or an EA. In both cases, that provides some "free"/NFR Azure services. A few years ago, Gartner pushed a survey like this where 40% of a group of drunken CIO types at some conference claimed that they wouldn't buy PCs or smartphones for employees after 2018. This stuff just isn't that meaningful.
Certhas 10y ago
That was where I saw it. It seems the market is balancing, rather than AWS pulling away, with YoY growth better for Google than for Microsoft and both better than Amazon: https://www.srgresearch.com/articles/amazon-leads-microsoft-ibm-google-chase-others-trail https://www.srgresearch.com/articles/amazon-leads-microsoft-...

by nathas 10y ago

tedmiston 10y ago

I'll second the "citation needed" for Azure overtaking AWS "soon".

gr3yh47 10y ago

Azure reliability is near the bottom of the market. I doubt they'll be overtaking aws.

Spooky23 10y ago

It's all based on Morgan Stanley’s "2016 CIO Survey". It doesn't appear to be publicly available. I've been the drone filling out surveys like this for CIOs in the past. Sometimes those surveys ask these sorts of things indirectly, especially if it's a paid survey. For example, they might assume that O365 utilization drives Azure adoption. (Behind the scenes O365 auth is an Azure service) Another example would be asking if your org has MSDN or an EA. In both cases, that provides some "free"/NFR Azure services. A few years ago, Gartner pushed a survey like this where 40% of a group of drunken CIO types at some conference claimed that they wouldn't buy PCs or smartphones for employees after 2018. This stuff just isn't that meaningful.

Certhas 10y ago

That was where I saw it. It seems the market is balancing, rather than AWS pulling away, with YoY growth better for Google than for Microsoft and both better than Amazon: https://www.srgresearch.com/articles/amazon-leads-microsoft-ibm-google-chase-others-trail https://www.srgresearch.com/articles/amazon-leads-microsoft-...