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by qayxc 1461 days ago
GP seems to be oblivious to actual stats [0].

Last year, Azure was the 2nd biggest player in cloud computing, being "only" 2/3 of AWS' market share, but still having more than 3x the market share of the next biggest competitor (Google).

Indeed hardly something I'd call "struggling".

[0] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1202770/hyperscaler-iaas...
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oxfordmale 1461 days ago
I can't remember the source, however, I believe Microsoft is overstating the usage of Azure as a cloud computing platform. For example Office 365 is hosted on Azure and counted towards the cloud computing figure.
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yyyk 1461 days ago
That may have been true in the past, but definitely not these days. MS separates Office 365 sales from Azure sales in its reports (e.g. [0]).

[0] https://news.microsoft.com/2021/07/27/microsoft-cloud-streng...

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qayxc 1461 days ago
I can only cite sources. Disputing the numbers would have to be taken up with Statista and their sources, I can't comment on this.

The revenue chart looks more favourable for Microsoft (e.g. 20% share for Azure vs. 30% share for AWS), so maybe that's the data you have in mind?

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