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Re:Google Brass Set 2023 as Deadline to Beat Amazon, Microso... by tstrimple on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @07:30PM (#21820642)
Microsoft is definitely running on Azure. I can't imagine AWS is doing anything different.

https://www.pcmag.com/article/364611/microsofts-cloud-how-th...

> Guthrie said Microsoft has long had a tradition to "eat our own dog food," which means it runs its own systems on top of the same software it offers to customers. Microsoft IT was an early customer for Office 365, Azure, and Dynamics 365, and has moved the vast majority of its internal servers to Azure, including its SAP implementation, payment systems, and test systems. This has helped Microsoft learn what it takes to run the technology on an enterprise scale.

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Re:Google Brass Set 2023 as Deadline to Beat Amazon, Microso... by mulmen on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @11:59PM (#21821947)
That just means Microsoft is using Azure. It doesn’t mean Azure is an internal Microsoft service that was “productized”.

I’m not willing to die on this hill. I could be wrong about the origins of Azure. AWS and GCP are not productized versions of internal services.

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