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Re:Azure has an edge over AWS at big companies, Goldman Sach... by Daishiman on Thursday January 09, 2020 @01:55AM (#21999077)
MS has established business relationships with large corps to a much greater degree than Amazon. They're already entrenched as nobody's moving away from Windows desktops or Office anytime soon, so the upsell to cloud for them is trivial.
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Re:Azure has an edge over AWS at big companies, Goldman Sach... by adjkant on Thursday January 09, 2020 @03:01AM (#21999350)
This is the real key. The only notable thing is that Azure was built well enough to play ball against AWS so that the sales team could really work.

For developers it seems that Azure tends to settle at a clear #3 behind AWS/GCP for most. It only makes sense that Microsoft would look to carve out an enterprise niche. They seem to have done a decent job keeping their enterprise stuff fresh, I'm honestly surprised they didn't go the way of IBM/Oracle.

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Re:Azure has an edge over AWS at big companies, Goldman Sach... by PasserBy2025 on Thursday January 09, 2020 @05:05AM (#21999914)
> a clear #3 behind AWS/GCP for most

Maybe in Google board's dreams? As a developer I like support that is: 1) human; 2) available; 3) does not sunset products every week.

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Re:Azure has an edge over AWS at big companies, Goldman Sach... by intsunny on Thursday January 09, 2020 @10:10AM (#22001790)
Can you share GCP features Google has sunset every week?
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Re:Azure has an edge over AWS at big companies, Goldman Sach... by webpaymentsguy on Thursday January 09, 2020 @09:03AM (#22001223)
I don't think Azure is behind GCP - from what I've not only read but personally found in their offerings and support teams, Azure and AWS are really comparable for most, and GCP lags behind both.
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Re:Azure has an edge over AWS at big companies, Goldman Sach... by rtyturtu on Thursday January 09, 2020 @04:49AM (#21999822)
I think narration on HN is that Google's Cloud behind Azure and AWS.
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Re:Azure has an edge over AWS at big companies, Goldman Sach... by romanovcode on Thursday January 09, 2020 @07:09AM (#22000519)
Not HN narration but a simple fact.

> Amazon Web Services accounted for almost 33% of global cloud spending, while Microsoft had nearly 17% and Google had just under 7%

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/google-brass-set-202...

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Re:Azure has an edge over AWS at big companies, Goldman Sach... by coredog64 on Thursday January 09, 2020 @09:18AM (#22001341)
AIUI, Microsoft juices those numbers a bit by including Office365. Yes, it’s in the “cloud”, but it’s not exactly apples-to-apples with AWS.
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Re:Azure has an edge over AWS at big companies, Goldman Sach... by dragonwriter on Thursday January 09, 2020 @09:25AM (#22001402)
It's comparable to WorkMail/WorkDocs. Sure, O365 is a little more complete, and, sure, MS has more of their cloud revenue in that area than AWS has in its comparable services, but almost any time you are comparing business in a category where each has multiple services there’ll be differences like that.
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Re:Azure has an edge over AWS at big companies, Goldman Sach... by TheCoelacanth on Thursday January 09, 2020 @10:37AM (#22002014)
Does Google not include Google Apps or whatever they call their Office365 competitor in their number?
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Re:Azure has an edge over AWS at big companies, Goldman Sach... by jdlyga on Thursday January 09, 2020 @02:04PM (#22004312)
That's the key reason. It's the same reason why Microsoft Teams is becoming popular. Because it's included in support packages that businesses already have from using Office 365, or the business already has a relationship with Microsoft.
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Re:Azure has an edge over AWS at big companies, Goldman Sach... by 3fe9a03ccd14ca5 on Thursday January 09, 2020 @02:12AM (#21999144)
They made it so easy and effortless to take your in-office IT infrastructure and put it into azure.
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