News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Microsoft Beats Amazon in 12-Month Cloud Revenue. Parent comment

Re:Microsoft Beats Amazon in 12-Month Cloud Revenue by toomuchtodo on Monday November 05, 2018 @12:54PM (#18384331)
AWS includes their PaaS AWS service offerings in their revenue, no (Cognito, dev tools, Workspaces, etc)? Why wouldn't Microsoft include O365 and Dynamics then?

Raw compute and storage isn't where the money is at long term, it's the lock in value add services (especially with Kubernetes and Hashicorp making multicloud and portability first class).

Sidenote: I have seen A TON of open roles looking for Azure and GCP skills over AWS lately.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Microsoft Beats Amazon in 12-Month Cloud Revenue by sun_n_surf on Monday November 05, 2018 @12:57PM (#18384369)
Open roles for Azure & GCP might remain open for longer because of lower supply and poorer matching, not because of higher positions being searched for. The AWS talent market probably clears more easily given that it has existed longer.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Microsoft Beats Amazon in 12-Month Cloud Revenue by toomuchtodo on Monday November 05, 2018 @01:01PM (#18384408)
I don't disagree. I'd also argue it's because certain retail clients won't use AWS for obvious reasons like not funding your competitor (based on conversations I've had with retail clients).
[ Parent | on HN ]