The ML features of Azure are as good as anyone’s. You can dip your toes in the water at https://studio.azureml.net/ then scale all the way to running CNTK on GPU farms.

Azure is almost as big as AWS. I think Azure is more used for Enterprise Saas.

According to who? And what is included? Microsoft has a history of blurring the lines here. I think the only way you get them being equal is by combining internal use and/or their SAAS offerings. I don't think it's a fair comparison if you do that.

Annual revenue, 1st quarter 2018:

Microsoft: $21.2 Amazon: $20.4B

From [1]. That includes Office365 revenue[2]. Excluding that, Azure is about 1/3 the size of AWS[3]

[1] https://www.zdnet.com/article/cloud-providers-ranking-2018-h...

[2] https://techcrunch.com/2017/10/30/aws-continues-to-rule-the-...

[3] https://www.srgresearch.com/articles/cloud-market-keeps-grow...

Maybe you like this article: https://www.redpixie.com/blog/microsoft-azure-aws-guide

I think this is a fair and in depth comparison.

> I think this is a fair and in depth comparison.

redpixie is a MS partner, so I don’t expect it to be fair.

https://www.redpixie.com/blog/iaas-paas-saas

“As a Microsoft Partner, we focus on Microsoft Azure IaaS solutions”