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Microsoft top cloud – 14.4% of the market share vs. 13.7% that of AWS

11 points by achow 4y ago

plantain 4y ago
I just cannot believe this is true. AWS is everywhere. And Azure is so bad in comparison. Everything is painful, from the UI to the API, and god help you if you need support. I recently waited over 2 months just to get a trivial amount of quota approved on Azure...
achillean 4y ago
In terms of which cloud is running most services the breakdown is more like: https://www.shodan.io/search/facet?query=net%3A0%2F0&facet=cloud.provider https://www.shodan.io/search/facet?query=net%3A0%2F0&facet=c... - AWS - Digital Ocean - Microsoft - Tencent Cloud - Alibaba Cloud - Linode - Vultr - Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - Rackspace - Yandex - IBM It's hard to place Google as their CDN and other infrastructure inflates the numbers.
scrollaway 4y ago
jamesvnz 4y ago
Not sure these "market share" competitions are very useful. Includes SaaS cloud revenue for MSFT - which is the largest portion - an area where AWS doesn't compete (well, not meaningfully). Also, in the past didn't MSFT include AWS cloud Windows and SQL Server license charges in their "cloud revenue" - not sure if that is still the case.
thiscatis 4y ago
*most likely polled at 10 companies where Cloud means that they just stopped paying for Windows XP support extension.
sigstoat 4y ago
right as soon as you see aws and azure are competing against sap and salesforce, you know they’re not measuring what most of HN thinks of as “cloud”.
- majewsky 4y ago
  You are right that most of what SAP does is in the SaaS market, so not "cloud" as in IaaS. SAP _does_ have IaaS offerings, but it's not something that's open to everyone. This is one example: https://news.sap.com/2018/03/sap-hana-enterprise-cloud-a-strong-pillar-of-saps-strategy/ https://news.sap.com/2018/03/sap-hana-enterprise-cloud-a-str... > SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud [...] is SAP’s private managed cloud. It was launched in 2013 to help customers accelerate their adoption of SAP HANA. This is a cloud environment in the narrower sense, but it's only open to pre-existing customers as far as I know. I also don't know if they're still accepting new customers or not. Source/Disclosure: I work at SAP in Cloud Infrastructure. Don't ask me for details on our product portfolio though, I'm too low-level for that.
arthurcolle 4y ago
I don't believe it
recursivedoubts 4y ago
to adjust the old (and apparently wrong) quote: "How could microsoft have won? Nobody I know uses them!"
tmaly 4y ago
Maybe they are counting 365 in the cloud?

11 points by achow 4y ago

I just cannot believe this is true. AWS is everywhere. And Azure is so bad in comparison. Everything is painful, from the UI to the API, and god help you if you need support. I recently waited over 2 months just to get a trivial amount of quota approved on Azure...

achillean 4y ago

In terms of which cloud is running most services the breakdown is more like: https://www.shodan.io/search/facet?query=net%3A0%2F0&facet=cloud.provider https://www.shodan.io/search/facet?query=net%3A0%2F0&facet=c... - AWS - Digital Ocean - Microsoft - Tencent Cloud - Alibaba Cloud - Linode - Vultr - Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - Rackspace - Yandex - IBM It's hard to place Google as their CDN and other infrastructure inflates the numbers.

scrollaway 4y ago

jamesvnz 4y ago

Not sure these "market share" competitions are very useful. Includes SaaS cloud revenue for MSFT - which is the largest portion - an area where AWS doesn't compete (well, not meaningfully). Also, in the past didn't MSFT include AWS cloud Windows and SQL Server license charges in their "cloud revenue" - not sure if that is still the case.

thiscatis 4y ago

*most likely polled at 10 companies where Cloud means that they just stopped paying for Windows XP support extension.

sigstoat 4y ago

right as soon as you see aws and azure are competing against sap and salesforce, you know they’re not measuring what most of HN thinks of as “cloud”.

majewsky 4y ago
You are right that most of what SAP does is in the SaaS market, so not "cloud" as in IaaS. SAP _does_ have IaaS offerings, but it's not something that's open to everyone. This is one example: https://news.sap.com/2018/03/sap-hana-enterprise-cloud-a-strong-pillar-of-saps-strategy/ https://news.sap.com/2018/03/sap-hana-enterprise-cloud-a-str... > SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud [...] is SAP’s private managed cloud. It was launched in 2013 to help customers accelerate their adoption of SAP HANA. This is a cloud environment in the narrower sense, but it's only open to pre-existing customers as far as I know. I also don't know if they're still accepting new customers or not. Source/Disclosure: I work at SAP in Cloud Infrastructure. Don't ask me for details on our product portfolio though, I'm too low-level for that.

arthurcolle 4y ago

I don't believe it

recursivedoubts 4y ago

to adjust the old (and apparently wrong) quote: "How could microsoft have won? Nobody I know uses them!"

tmaly 4y ago

Maybe they are counting 365 in the cloud?