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Azure, despite being smaller than AWS, I think has more regions. So each one must be smaller, which likely means less spare capacity. I also sort of suspect t
by pwarner 4y ago
Azure, despite being smaller than AWS, I think has more regions. So each one must be smaller, which likely means less spare capacity.
I also sort of suspect the spot market is less robust there. Lots of Azure is lift and shift on premises workloads, and those aren't using spot. Without people using spot, it's even harder to have spare capacity...
- pclmulqdq 4y agoAzure uses much smaller datacenters than AWS or GCP. Microsoft wasn't a big compute user before cloud, and it's a lot easier to manage and build for smaller DCs. Amazon and Google both needed huge DCs before being clouds.