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I think it will work, especially if Microsoft can also build self hosted version of some of these tools. There is a huge market for such tools (look at how much
by akudha 5y ago
I think it will work, especially if Microsoft can also build self hosted version of some of these tools. There is a huge market for such tools (look at how much attention self hosted Airtable alternatives are getting). Between self/cloud hosted versions, their sales machine and deep integrations, Microsoft has a huge advantage over Google and Amazon.
- WorldMaker 5y agoAt BUILD this year Microsoft announced Azure Arc which runs on any Kubernetes cluster (including ones you spin up on AWS, GCP, or a laptop on a desk somewhere) and supports running a surprising number of Azure services already (Azure App Services, Azure Functions, Azure Logic Apps, and supposedly growing). Administration can happen in the regular Azure Portal and it just looks like you are deploying to a custom datacenter region in the Portal. It's really slick. It's also pretty obvious that many of the services they've focused on at first are some of the underlying foundations of their Low Code efforts, so I would be surprised if Power Apps and Power BI also eventually wind up on that list of Azure Arc supported. Azure Arc seems like a really interesting "compromise" on "self-hosted" (depending of course, on which reasons you have to need "self-hosting"). (Azure also has Azure Stack which is the entirely self-hosted datacenter version too. I don't think that yet supports these Low Code tools yet either, but it's probably even closer to having the foundations for that in place.)