[raxxorrax]

That is good to hear (that it isn't dead).

But I don't really believe the numbers in question. Azure? Really? I really tried to connect to technical people that know their stuff around it because I thought about migrating from AWS. Not because I dislike it or particularly like Microsoft, it just would be a good fit for some selected companies that are already invested there. I don't know where there are hiding, but I just cannot find many devs in that area. I find many consultants and some are good, but sometimes I need someone that can sketch a way to implement some more arcane things.

Where is Azure really employed? Certain industries? Are these numbers inflated with O365 users? I used some quick and dirty power apps and power automate, am I an Azure user already?

Serverless is absolutely not in my interest. I did some IOT integrations and it can be of help here, especially since you already use the voice recognition of the same provider. But beyond that? Make myself dependent on infrastructure of this kind that will probably look entirely different in 1-2 years? Meh...

[sofixa]

Azure seems to be mostly used by Microsoft partners and companies that have an unhealthy dependency on Microsoft ( at least on the French market). The majority of companies ( and engineers) are on AWS, some on GCP ( mostly startups, either for the credits, ML or k8s goodies).

As for serverless, that's why we have Knative now. Developing for it makes your "serverless" portable between providers ( many implement it, worse case scenario you can run it yourself on any k8s anywhere).