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Naw, what they're talking about with infiniband networking ends up being important for distributed GPU workloads and is pretty cool to see in a cloud offering.
by dave_sullivan 10y ago
Naw, what they're talking about with infiniband networking ends up being important for distributed GPU workloads and is pretty cool to see in a cloud offering.
Being "impressed by their roadmap" is legitimate; Microsoft is putting a lot of energy behind competing with AWS. I've been hearing good things about Azure, but have been an AWS user since ~2009. I haven't heard they're much better or cheaper than AWS, so I haven't bothered to switch.
There's certainly PR value here, I just don't think it should be dismissed outright because of that.
- spydum 10y agoMuch of the cheaper comes when you get the large enterprise discounts (versus amazon). Those don't last forever though. Their offering is definitely far more immature, but they are making constant improvements. They tend to be leveraging lot of ML stuff in the security/management space as well, which is pretty interesting (they have a vast trove of threat intel from the millions of MS defender and O365 type deployments).