LinkedIn is moving to Azure

Re:LinkedIn is moving to Azure by positr0n on Wednesday July 24, 2019 @01:17AM (#20512529)

At first I thought, wow! You don't see a company that big up and change cloud providers very often!

Then I remembered Microsoft bought them (3 years ago now).

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Re:LinkedIn is moving to Azure by sauravs on Wednesday July 24, 2019 @01:28AM (#20512564)

Yes...seems to be completely a political decision rather than a technical one..also it reminded me of gitlab's decision to move out of Azure...

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Re:LinkedIn is moving to Azure by writepub on Wednesday July 24, 2019 @02:30AM (#20512797)

Vertical integration more than political. Like Samsung phones using Samsung DRAM and storage.

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Re:LinkedIn is moving to Azure by linker3000 on Wednesday July 24, 2019 @01:37AM (#20512609)

It isn't a 'change of cloud providers' as such because, a couple of years ago at least, LinkedIn was running its own server estate in a number of global, regional data centres.

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Re:LinkedIn is moving to Azure by pojzon on Wednesday July 24, 2019 @03:18AM (#20512981)

Happens alot lately. Beside own subsidiaries, Microsoft creates "partnerships" and all of those "partners" sooner or later migrate to Azure.

Ofcourse its one way to beta-test your services. Hopefully it will increase the quality of the service.

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Re:LinkedIn is moving to Azure by tonyedgecombe on Wednesday July 24, 2019 @04:20AM (#20513211)

I wonder if they will make a better job of it than they did moving Hotmail to their own platform.

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