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0 pointsbaybal24y ago0 comments

> And without scale ( AWS is bigger than GCP and Azure combined )

Azure cloud is bigger than AWS

https://cloudwars.co/microsoft/microsoft-q2-cloud-revenue-st...

In terms of physical servers. I believe Chinese cloud providers, and their monster CNDs (China has terribly slow Internet, and superlocal CDNs are the only way out there) overtook AWS quite a few years ago.

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lostmsu4y ago· 1 in thread

Revenue != compute resources. That revenue includes Office Online subscriptions AFAIK as a way to game the marketing.

lmickh4y ago

There is also the common practice of not including discounts in revenue. There is a reason companies talk about revenue instead of net sales or net income.

I've never seen AWS give discounts comparable to what Azure provided. Especially to larger companies they want the brand recognition from.

jiocrag4y ago

Microsoft’s “cloud business” is not at all comparable to AWS or GCP. It includes all manner of other product that can’t be reasonably classified as cloud compute. AWS remains significantly larger than either azure or GCP when measured by either revenue or raw compute.

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