I envy the geniuses at Microsoft who can convince 60k+ software companies like mine where we're all engineer or mathematicians, led by incredibly clueless IT decision makers :D I've talked face to face with people from an other continent in charge of our switch to Azure, and he was neither aware nor involved in even the decision of Azure vs AWS vs Google Cloud. But he was in charge...

I came to learn that the main reason we chose Azure (but I think the biggest problem was to choose Cloud) was because we already had teams doing Windows maintenance, server management, etc: we had way more relationship with MS already than with Amazon or Google. Now we have it, it's beautiful, nobody uses it, people grudgingly do trainings, and make big presentation about Cloud strategies, while waiting for legal and compliance to allow us to connect to it. Since we figured after the contract was signed that it would be mostly illegal for us to give Microsoft any of our client data...

Whatever, happy to see sometimes other people struggling with the bewildering fact that we somehow regressed :D