[PaulHoule]

Software and Services businesses are terrified of AMZN; for instance Oracle would rather rent you MySQL than have AMZN rent it, IBM wishes you had Red Hat Linux instead of AMZN Linux, SmartThings built a cloud service to support a consumer-oriented box they are selling, AMZN builds a service to support industrial customers with all kinds of boxes, etc.

I were Family Dollar I'd use Azure. The Azure experience and AWS experience are strong for both Linux and Windows and you cannot say one conclusively is #1 and the other is #2. Choosing on the basis that "I don't want to fund an existential threat to my business" (be that rational, emotional, or both...) won't lead to a bad outcome here.

Other clouds are half-baked in comparison.