Tech IndustryJan 27, 2019
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How many years till Azure surpasses AWS in market share?

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Amazon Redux Jan 27, 2019

The first 20% will be/was easy to steal, because some companies just want a different provider to put their DR on. They also have easy customers to acquire, such as direct competitors of Amazon who don’t want to give their competitor (Amazon) money. The remaining market share will definitely be hard to take. Isn’t Azure support also outsourced? Working with outsourced people is a pain in the ass. One thing Amazon really gets right is customer obsession, which I think is hard to do when you’re outsourcing. Azure is definitely doing well though, and more competitors in the market is only better for the consumer.

Square 077 Jan 27, 2019

I’m hollering 😂

Varian Medical NzLh55 Jan 27, 2019

Azure won’t and can’t catch up. They are years behind in what they offer and once you actually build to scale they cost way too much. Look at the way they want you to use and license MSSQL server. However, Microsoft doesn’t want to catch up, and knows they can’t. They want to capture the enterprise market and shitty IT department market - the same people who used to choose windows server on premise. The same people who use Citrix today. Nobody is going to build the next Netflix or WhatsApp on azure. But it’s very possible that thousands of enterprise, government, healthcare, and small business customers will all move from windows on prem to windows on azure. And that’s all Microsoft wants. They don’t want those people to go to Amazon workspaces or appstream or Amazon directory services. And Amazon makes their stuff just complicated enough that Microsoft can win this despite having objectively worse offerings here.

Microsoft 🐟FishyFish Jan 27, 2019

Azure cannot catch up what? GCP? Come on, GCP is waaaaaaaaaaay behind Azure

Tableau hellish Jan 27, 2019

A more interesting question that is not so obvious, will Gcp catch azure

Google NiaI34 Jan 27, 2019

Maybe

IBM 87jdurhu Jan 27, 2019

Lol no

Albertsons ycDC13 Aug 10, 2019

Azure was polling ahead of aws in 2017...