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Looks like Microsoft > Google in Cloud wars. For comparison Google Cloud revenue is just $6B, source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33338258 https://news

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• jiggawatts 4y ago
  Maybe not any more: https://www.statista.com/statistics/250520/forecast-of-amazon-web-services-revenue/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/250520/forecast-of-amazo... Looks like Azure + Microsoft 365 has overtaken AWS. The question is whether Azure alone has overtaken AWS…
  • candiodari 4y ago
    You can sort of tell by the fact that they didn't announce it had. If Azure was bigger than AWS they would, sure as hell, have announced it. So it hasn't.
    • jiggawatts 4y ago
      That's probably an accurate deduction. I generally base my unofficial estimates on the volume of blog posts, google hits, etc... for specific offerings that have direct equivalents in the two clouds. I still see a significantly smaller volume of hits turning up for Azure, which makes me suspect that they have a higher revenue per resource. E.g.: I suspect Azure targets "large enterprise", which is notoriously wasteful, whereas AWS targets frugal startups that use Linux and OSS.
  • prepend 4y ago
    > The question is whether Azure alone has overtaken AWS… Not a very interesting question as the answer is, as it’s been for many years, “no.” If Azure ever overtakes AWS that will be very noteworthy. But it’s pretty hard to compare revenue to revenue because of the way the companies report.