Microsoft Azure is giving Amazon a run for its cloud money

February 23, 2015 Off By David

Grazed from InfoWorld. Author: Matt Asay.

If you’re an enterprise software vendor today, there’s only one company to fear: Amazon. VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger perhaps said it most honestly ("if a workload goes to Amazon, you lose, and we have lost forever"), but the sentiment is widely shared — or it should be. After all, AWS (Amazon Web Services) plays by different rules, spoiling the comfortable margins and business models of yesterday.

While AWS used to confine itself to the relatively small IaaS market, it now dabbles in everything from email and calendaring systems to document storage services and various PaaS solutions. Indeed, as Amazon CTO Werner Vogels has declared, AWS is in the "business of pain management for enterprises," and there’s plenty of pain to go around…

The one company that seems capable of withstanding AWS, both in the public cloud and in private data centers, is Microsoft. Written off as irrelevant by many, Microsoft is making a comeback and may be the biggest threat to AWS’s plans for cloud domination…

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