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Let's be honest, it's Azure. The only reason you choose it is because either you compete with Amazon in some way, or you hate your infrastructure engineers, or
by medium_burrito 6y ago
Let's be honest, it's Azure. The only reason you choose it is because either you compete with Amazon in some way, or you hate your infrastructure engineers, or don't know better.
- emodendroket 6y agoQuite a few businesses are still simply more comfortable with any idea if Microsoft does it than otherwise.
- beebob 6y agoFrom what I’ve seen up until now it’s often the last option. I’ve seen comparisons between the major cloud providers, but those have often been on the level of “I can boot a VM with x cpu on provider y and z”. With these kind of comparisons a major deciding factor then is discounts. And that’s an area Microsoft excels at.
- easton 6y agoOr because you already use Microsoft mail, so you already have Azure AD there, and they sent you some credits in an email, and then... I think Azure is cheaper for certain workloads as well, and at one point had DCs in places where AWS didn't. But it's mostly the "we already buy X Microsoft product, and they cost about the same, so..."