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Re:Microsoft top cloud – 14.4% of the market share vs. 13.7%... by plantain on Sunday July 03, 2022 @10:28PM (#31972894)
I just cannot believe this is true. AWS is everywhere.

And Azure is so bad in comparison. Everything is painful, from the UI to the API, and god help you if you need support.

I recently waited over 2 months just to get a trivial amount of quota approved on Azure...

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Re:Microsoft top cloud – 14.4% of the market share vs. 13.7%... by achillean on Sunday July 03, 2022 @10:32PM (#31972918)
In terms of which cloud is running most services the breakdown is more like:

https://www.shodan.io/search/facet?query=net%3A0%2F0&facet=c...

- AWS

- Digital Ocean

- Microsoft

- Tencent Cloud

- Alibaba Cloud

- Linode

- Vultr

- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

- Rackspace

- Yandex

- IBM

It's hard to place Google as their CDN and other infrastructure inflates the numbers.

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Re:Microsoft top cloud – 14.4% of the market share vs. 13.7%... by jamesvnz on Sunday July 03, 2022 @10:29PM (#31972901)
Not sure these "market share" competitions are very useful.

Includes SaaS cloud revenue for MSFT - which is the largest portion - an area where AWS doesn't compete (well, not meaningfully).

Also, in the past didn't MSFT include AWS cloud Windows and SQL Server license charges in their "cloud revenue" - not sure if that is still the case.

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Re:Microsoft top cloud – 14.4% of the market share vs. 13.7%... by sigstoat on Sunday July 03, 2022 @10:35PM (#31972940)
right as soon as you see aws and azure are competing against sap and salesforce, you know they’re not measuring what most of HN thinks of as “cloud”.
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Re:Microsoft top cloud – 14.4% of the market share vs. 13.7%... by majewsky on Monday July 04, 2022 @04:57AM (#31974979)
You are right that most of what SAP does is in the SaaS market, so not "cloud" as in IaaS. SAP _does_ have IaaS offerings, but it's not something that's open to everyone. This is one example: https://news.sap.com/2018/03/sap-hana-enterprise-cloud-a-str...

> SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud [...] is SAP’s private managed cloud. It was launched in 2013 to help customers accelerate their adoption of SAP HANA.

This is a cloud environment in the narrower sense, but it's only open to pre-existing customers as far as I know. I also don't know if they're still accepting new customers or not.

Source/Disclosure: I work at SAP in Cloud Infrastructure. Don't ask me for details on our product portfolio though, I'm too low-level for that.

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Re:Microsoft top cloud – 14.4% of the market share vs. 13.7%... by thiscatis on Sunday July 03, 2022 @10:30PM (#31972905)
*most likely polled at 10 companies where Cloud means that they just stopped paying for Windows XP support extension.
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Re:Microsoft top cloud – 14.4% of the market share vs. 13.7%... by tmaly on Monday July 04, 2022 @01:46PM (#31979866)
Maybe they are counting 365 in the cloud?
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Re:Microsoft top cloud – 14.4% of the market share vs. 13.7%... by recursivedoubts on Sunday July 03, 2022 @11:07PM (#31973108)
to adjust the old (and apparently wrong) quote:

"How could microsoft have won? Nobody I know uses them!"

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Re:Microsoft top cloud – 14.4% of the market share vs. 13.7%... by arthurcolle on Sunday July 03, 2022 @11:01PM (#31973069)
I don't believe it
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