What factors other than some specific affinity to Microsoft makes a company choose Azure over AWS? More locations, tho' every major cloud is opening more all t

What factors other than some specific affinity to Microsoft makes a company choose Azure over AWS? More locations, tho' every major cloud is opening more all the time. A much better hybrid story, tho' this may change once (if) AWS get their alliance with VMware working properly. Better layered applications (X-as-a-service) but that might be a matter of taste - AWS is more about giving you building blocks to build your things, Azure has the blocks but is better at giving you integrated "things" out of the box (e.g. IaaS vs PaaS). Per-second billing, generally better budget control. I've a bit of experience with both Azure and AWS. There's nothing I could build in one that I couldn't build in the other, tho' depending on what that is, it might be more effort in one of them. For my own personal stuff, I use Azure, it's more fun :-)