[fodkodrasz]

Because the alternatives are also in similar state.

AWS or GCP are all pretty crap. You use any of them, any you'll hit just enough rough edges. The whole industry is just grinding out slop, quality is not important anywhere.

I work with AWS on a daily basis, and I'm not really impressed. (Also nor did GCP impress me on the short encounter I had with it)

[Balinares]

I don't know about AWS or the rest of GCP, but in terms of engineering, my experience of GCE was at least an entire order of magnitude better than what the article alleges about Azure. Security and reliability were taken extremely seriously, and the quality of the engineering was world-class. I hope it has stayed like this since then. It was a worthwhile thing to experience.

[staticassertion]

This isn't it at all. AWS does not have the same sorts of insane cross-tenancy exploits that Azure has had, for example.

The reason that Azure has so many customers is very simply because Azure is borderline mandated by the US government.