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Why is AWS so dominant and, surprisingly to me at least, gaining on the competition? Google Cloud seems quite neat and in the same price range. OVH is much che
by blfr 9y ago
Why is AWS so dominant and, surprisingly to me at least, gaining on the competition?
Google Cloud seems quite neat and in the same price range. OVH is much cheaper and uses OpenStack. Businesses in the Microsoft sphere should buy Azure quite easily. And there are many smaller, specialized providers for various needs.
Amazon's lead should be eroding not consolidating. Is it just that they were first and everyone standardised on their tools? Devops people choosing AWS on autopilot because it's what they know works?
BTW this has to be the best blog header in the business.
- uiri 9y agoDisclaimer: I currently work in Azure. I've formerly worked inside of Google Cloud, and before that, AWS. Google runs its own infrastructure on people food and then gives its customers dog food. Until Google is eating its own dog food, it will be a distant third in the cloud market. Amazon understands this. They eat their own dog food throughout the company. They take running their business on AWS to the extreme. Microsoft is primarily hampered by the legacy of Windows. The modern cloud runs on Linux, not Windows. They're at 40% Linux VMs per recently announced numbers. If Azure succeeds, I think we'll see 80%+ Linux VMs. I think current market share is misleading. The current market is less than 5% of what the total market will be in 5-10 years. What matters now is mind share not market share.
- gist 9y ago> Why is AWS so dominant and > OVH is much cheaper and uses OpenStack Oh I definitely might get fired [1] for going with OVH. [1] https://www.quora.com/What-does-the-phrase-Nobody-ever-got-fired-for-choosing-IBM-mean https://www.quora.com/What-does-the-phrase-Nobody-ever-got-f...