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I think its safe to say that more consumer services are using AWS than Azure, things like Spotify, Netflix, Snapchat, etc. But when it comes to large enterprise
by moooo99 7y ago
I think its safe to say that more consumer services are using AWS than Azure, things like Spotify, Netflix, Snapchat, etc. But when it comes to large enterprises, I'd bet that Azure is first place by a significant margin.
Given that these enterprises power a significant chunk of the worlds supply chains, manufacturing processes and so on, I'd say that the piece of the digital world that Azure offers is way more critical.
- kazen44 7y agoAlso, don't understimate the amount of old, unsupported or ancient hardware that is still churning along in factories and supply companies keeping the supply chain running. It's terrifying how much of the world is held together by (literal sometimes) duct tape.
- scarface74 7y agoAmazon always brags that they have twice as many Windows VMs running as Azure. I’m by no means a Windows hater. I’ve never developed on anything professionally besides a Windows computer - these days .Net Core, Python and Node. But once I started working with AWS, I avoided deploying to Windows servers like the plague. Anytime you add Windows to the mix you basically more than double your cost between Windows licenses and the increased hardware required over running Linux. All that to say, no one chooses to use Windows on AWS. So if there are that many Windows instances on AWS, they are more than likely old enterprise workloads.