Why do you think DOD has awarded the JEDI contract to Microsoft?
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SW daddy Oct 26, 2019MS has way more experience selling to gov. That’s all there is to it. Better to have a stronger alternative to AWS anyway. So this is good for the ecosystem
Microsoft cptlsm Oct 26, 2019
The liberal propaganda is strong. Btw it’s analfarmer1
Amazon analfarmer OP Oct 26, 2019
Sorry, what are you trying to say?
Microsoft cptlsm Oct 26, 2019
Sorry. Too drunk to form a coherent sentence.
Uber itsdara Oct 26, 2019
Amazon LPs are for retail environment, not Enterprise and Government
Microsoft dFjC51¹ Oct 26, 2019
Honestly Azure is better... It came later and learned from the mistakes of AWS plus Microsoft knows big business better, we've been working with them for decades. The only reason people think AWS is better is bias from the 90s/2000s era of Microsoft. 2020s is going to be Microsoft's decade.
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Amazon ?!?* Oct 26, 2019
Can I have some more koolaid?
HP IIIlIll Oct 26, 2019
You the same analfarmer from r/wsb?
Amazon analfarmer OP Oct 26, 2019
Nope. Just copied the username 😁
Because AWS Sales/Service teams have a "take it or leave it" type approach to their offerings whereas MS Sales is known to try and please their Enterprise folks, especially upper Mgmt, as much as they can. I think AWS arrogance will be their undoing.
Can you please elaborate with real world examples. I'm really interested in understanding how you've reached the above conclusion.
Speaking from my own experience with them as a large enterprise customer. You guys don't offer any sort of liability insurance for a breach(which you, as a SWE, may not think much of. But Execs care), and your support team is slow to move, sometimes doesn't move at all, when we report persistent bugs that make the underlying service we're trying to use. Literally a reply I got once was "oh yes, we're aware of that bug. Lots of customers have reported it." then wtf are you doing about it when it's a serious service impacting bug that your large customers are complaining about? Another thing is the AWS Architects/Consultants have said one thing about how certain services works when it's completely different in practice leading me to believe there's a disconnect in training or something. From what I've heard from my Azure using friends, the GUI is a lot easier to use(though I use CLI for most things), the support team is very responsive to Enterprise clients, and MS is willing to consider liability insurance. Plus easy integration with O365 and AD servers, and a superior integration with existing data centers are all huge wins for them.