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I wonder how long it will be before they shutdown their own Citus Cloud hosted offering, which is hosted on AWS. Seems obvious that will become part of Azure so

• btown 8y ago
  I doubt they'd disrupt their AWS operations right away - this certainly won't be the first time that a MSFT team/subsidiary has used AWS. What's more worrying to me is if they try to do both - build out a Citus offering on Azure, and simultaneously try to keep high-reliability of their AWS Citus Cloud, which may be the most reliable option for some time. It's tough for any organization, no matter how much capital has been injected, to keep a laser-sharp eye on two inevitably-competing initiatives, each of which have their own performance and automation characteristics. I don't want the one person in the company who knows, say, cloud hard drive recovery patterns like the back of their hand and had previously been the EBS guru, to suddenly be pulled into the new Azure optimization project... and that's not something that capital injections can necessarily fix. That said, this could accelerate their development timelines overall, and it guarantees stability for the product for quite a while. Overall I think this is good news! Citus is one of those things that you want to have in your back pocket when building any type of app on Postgres, and we certainly see it in our company as a long-term "escape hatch" when we're forced to make database-heavy design decisions at currently relatively-small scale. This deal keeps it alive and prospering!