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I disagree, totally. Most companies who buy Office 365 want Active Directory just as much as the office products. Azure AD is an official Azure product; it's go
by 013a 8y ago
I disagree, totally. Most companies who buy Office 365 want Active Directory just as much as the office products. Azure AD is an official Azure product; it's got Azure right in the name and lives on the Azure console. AD, hosted email inboxes, OneDrive storage; that's what companies are increasingly looking to O365 for. The Office suite is just a checkbox next to those things.
You can't punish Microsoft's categorization of these things just because Amazon doesn't have directly competing products. Well, actually they do; they have Workdocs and hosted AD. But no one uses them. Both of these are official AWS products; are you going to suggest we should start sharding out Amazon's product suite by revenue per product just to get a perfectly fair comparison of revenue?
G-Suite is categorized as a Google Cloud product. I guess we should just completely cut G-Suite out of GCloud's revenue total? Even though it does directory-like functionality and competes directly with Office, Outlook, etc?
Where do you draw the line? Ultimately, you draw the line at mechanism of delivery and payment, which is what Cloud has always been about. Office 365 and AzureAD are pay-per-seat, and thus by extension correlates with pay-as-you-go, just like any other cloud product.