[wodenokoto]

I think it’s a HN bubble thing.

Outside of HN, I find developers (at least in Europe) often prefer GCP and businesses have full faith in the offering because of the Google stamp.

For Azure I have yet to find a developer who likes it, but businesses are drawn to it due to the packaging with other Microsoft services (eg you buy office 364, teams, Active Directory and Azure together in a Enterprise package) and businesses have full faith in the Microsoft stamp of approval.

[sofixa]

Same, of all the people I've interacted with, it's AWS and GCP which are liked (AWS mostly for features, GCP more for UX/DX), Azure is at best accepted and the only reasons anyone uses are "we were already a MS partner/shop".

[pjmlp]

On my corporate world bubble in Europe, it is usually either AWS or Azure, nothing else comes into the picture unless required by the customer.

Maybe the fact that we are a Java/.NET shop has some influence on it as well.

[michaelcampbell]

The more I ponder this post, the more it rings true with my experience. Insightful.