[inglor]

Azure is the second biggest cloud provider in the world (after amazon) - and we (TipRanks) deploy VMs to Azure.

It's a lot less common but I wouldn't call it `very rare`

[nl]

A lot of Azure use is with Linux VMs.

[KirinDave]

Azure provides a massive number of Linux boxes. It's actually their preferred target, if you hear them tell it at Connect2015.

I had a friend go there, came back talking about hallway discussions of Posh on Redhat.