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At first I thought, wow! You don't see a company that big up and change cloud providers very often! Then I remembered Microsoft bought them (3 years ago now).
by positr0n 7y ago
At first I thought, wow! You don't see a company that big up and change cloud providers very often!
Then I remembered Microsoft bought them (3 years ago now).
- sauravs 7y agoYes...seems to be completely a political decision rather than a technical one..also it reminded me of gitlab's decision to move out of Azure...
- writepub 7y agoVertical integration more than political. Like Samsung phones using Samsung DRAM and storage.
- linker3000 7y agoIt isn't a 'change of cloud providers' as such because, a couple of years ago at least, LinkedIn was running its own server estate in a number of global, regional data centres.
- pojzon 7y agoHappens alot lately. Beside own subsidiaries, Microsoft creates "partnerships" and all of those "partners" sooner or later migrate to Azure. Ofcourse its one way to beta-test your services. Hopefully it will increase the quality of the service.
- tonyedgecombe 7y agoI wonder if they will make a better job of it than they did moving Hotmail to their own platform.