| >Azure is a perfectly suitable replacement for AWS - VMs, storage, functions, etc. So is GCP, I started using just S3 in 2007, but fully moved my hosting on AWS by 2010. And never looked back. Their offering is the most mature, compared to competitors. And continuously improves, Few (random) examples: 1) They allow HTTPs breaking at the load balancer level, along with certificates you can just generate on the fly and use. Its so freakin' easy, you wouldn't believe, in comparison to, the process, if it was not there. 2) They keep on reducing prices on their own. As a customer you can't but feel glad when that happens. 3) Their DNS service (Route 53) is the easiest to configure I have seen. Having ran my own DNS, before it was released. On top of that, there is a learning curve for any cloud. Which is as cumbersome as learning a new OS. Just like you will have to learn at least 10/20 commands before you can be productive on a new OS, same it is for cloud. E.g. How to build an image; how to spawn an instance; how to backup to S3; how to mount a volume; and so on... Also the range and variety of instance types which you could get (memory intensive, compute intensive, from ultra small to the nxlarge ones) There are also other reasons: Example, I tried to explore Google cloud, when it came out, but the sandbox model was not for me. So couldn't use it. I totally believe that its got better. But just my experience with it. >but I'm not familiar enough with it. You said it. If someone doesn't use mails, may equate gmail with Yahoo! mail or with Hotmail. Devil lies in the details. edit: minor rephrase |