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Microsoft can offer fully-integrated solutions with their already incredibly popular software. So that's a distinct advantage.

• toomuchtodo 6y ago
  Azure is less friendly as a technology practitioner (compared to working with AWS), but I fully appreciate the value you describe. Does AWS have Active Directory as a first class citizen? Office 365? Outlook/Exchange? No.
  • chucky_z 6y ago
    AWS does offer AD as a first class citizen... More than Azure. AzureAD is not Active Directory, and unless something has changed a lot in the last year (maybe it has?), Azure does not offer anything that looks, smells, and feels like on-prem AD in the cloud.
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    • jedieaston 6y ago
      Azure Active Directory Domain Services is full-fat AD, but they market it towards only using it for services in Azure. But you can set up a VPN from Azure to join on-prem stuff (or to replicate existing AD to Azure). https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory-domain-services/overview https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory-doma...
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      • chucky_z 6y ago
        That's good to hear! I really wanted "hosted AD" from a cloud a few years ago, and Azure definitely did not offer this... or they marketed it so poorly I could not find it anywhere. :( AWS has straight up guides for do's/dont's, and various ways to integrate their AD service with yours, including multiple scenarios such as running them as the masters of the forest, with read-only's on-site, and vice-versa.