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Disclaimer: 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
by uiri 9y ago
Disclaimer: 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.