Microsoft chairman explains how Satya Nadella won the cloud wars

Isn't it a bit premature to say that anyone has won the cloud wars? Most assume it's a two-horse race between AWS and Azure but Google is aggressively marketing their cloud ($750/month in GCP credits for 3 years, trying to get you hooked) and IBM's acquisition of Red Hat might be more about OpenStack and bolstering their cloud efforts than anything else. And don't forget "third tier" providers like Digital Ocean, Linode, Rackspace, and many, many other small companies who have long-standing relationships with local and regional IT decision makers and who have benefited by acquiring the best IT talent leaving companies upon "migrating to the cloud." Azure certainly has momentum but I think it's far too early to call a winner in this race.

whydoineedthis2• 7 years ago

Where are you getting $750/month in GCP credits for 3 years? I'm not debating you, I want to go get that!

mikece2• 7 years ago

No sooner than I posted that I began to wonder if I mis-heard that number (pretty sure I heard that number on a podcast... which now that I think of it, might have been hyperbole to make the point that Google really wants people to check out GCP and, ideally, get hooked). Microsoft had their BizSpark program which granted $150/month in Azure credits plus operating system, server, and enterprise edition developer licenses for three years, a value that comes to far more than $750 a month if you really use to its maximum potential. The best I can find at the moment is $300 but I don't know if this is per month and if it's just limited to K8S research/education or not: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/gcp/google-cloud-gran...

yread• 7 years ago

Startups get 3000$. And they are eligible for another 17000$ in credits I've heard. Not sure what the criteria is though.

whydoineedthis2• 7 years ago

Microsoft Chairman explains why Microsoft CEO "won/will win" the cloud wars. It's like getting my son to explain why I'm "The Worlds Best Dad". Could be true, but probably subjective at best.

Microsoft chairman explains how Satya Nadella won the cloud wars

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