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Eh. A legion of non remote, non technology, companies were forced to quickly thrust themselves into the web. Want to bet how many of those companies were alrea

Eh. A legion of non remote, non technology, companies were forced to quickly thrust themselves into the web. Want to bet how many of those companies were already running as a Microsoft shop? Nearly 100%. I would love to see details on the total requests placed on AWS and Azure during the time frame of COVID. My instinct tells me that Azure got hammered driven by those microsoft shops scrambling to get into the cloud while AWS had only a small increase, driven by technology companies (a small portion of companies) where the devs have final say and prefer AWS.

outworlder 7y ago
> where the devs have final say Highlighting the important part.
- cc81 7y ago
  If devs are the ones generating revenue for the company. Not all companies are software companies.
tw04 7y ago
100% echo this statement. I have dozens of customers who went to VDI in Azure as their immediate work from home solution. I can't think of a single one that went to AWS. The article makes a bunch of baseless claims to get to an unproven conclusion. >It’s safe to say that AWS runs a much bigger, if not more critical, chunk of the digital world than Azure. Based on?? If o365 goes down for any extended period of time, most of the fortune 100 can't do business. > it generally lacks operational experience in running “always on” services and preparing for unanticipated traffic surges. Ya... Microsoft lacks experience running always-on services... they'd only been managing hotmail for a decade before AWS was even in beta. They have no experience running always-on services AT ALL.
- mastry 7y ago
  I have seen the same. One of our clients stood up 25,000 Azure VMs (Win 10) in a single day. No problems so far.
  - tw04 7y ago
    > No problems so far. Wait until they get the bill :) I will say, it's amazing how quickly they find budget for that back-burnered VDI project after the first month of billing.

outworlder 7y ago

> where the devs have final say Highlighting the important part.

cc81 7y ago
If devs are the ones generating revenue for the company. Not all companies are software companies.

tw04 7y ago

100% echo this statement. I have dozens of customers who went to VDI in Azure as their immediate work from home solution. I can't think of a single one that went to AWS. The article makes a bunch of baseless claims to get to an unproven conclusion. >It’s safe to say that AWS runs a much bigger, if not more critical, chunk of the digital world than Azure. Based on?? If o365 goes down for any extended period of time, most of the fortune 100 can't do business. > it generally lacks operational experience in running “always on” services and preparing for unanticipated traffic surges. Ya... Microsoft lacks experience running always-on services... they'd only been managing hotmail for a decade before AWS was even in beta. They have no experience running always-on services AT ALL.

mastry 7y ago
I have seen the same. One of our clients stood up 25,000 Azure VMs (Win 10) in a single day. No problems so far.
- tw04 7y ago
  > No problems so far. Wait until they get the bill :) I will say, it's amazing how quickly they find budget for that back-burnered VDI project after the first month of billing.