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Mainly because of their cloud business, which I feel is a fair evaluation.

Azure is widening the gap between 2nd and 3rd place in cloud hosting, while also making huge gains in cloud services, which is something AWS doesn't have.

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What services does Azure have that AWS doesnt? I thought it would be the other way around if anything.

I think by Cloud Services he means mainly SaaS (O365), email, calendars, excel, yammer, etc.

Office 365 and Azure AD integration. These are probably huge money makers.

I believe they have on-premises hosted azure.

Sort of. There is Azure Stack ( https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/overview/azure-stack/ ) and Microsoft also deploys Azure in private data centers mainly for Governments.

I mainly meant Office 365 & SharePoint, but there is a growing list of services above the infrastructure layer that Azure is leading in as well, like identity (Active Directory), hybrid cloud, Dynamics CRM and BI/data processing.

a better web interface, for one.

Yeah azure has a nice interface, nicer account/subaccount management features (Iam roles in json... Come on Amazon)

Also I find the billing pretty easy to understand.

Their UI is pretty terrible and broken though, the entire Microsoft ecosystem, including Office365 admin is pretty buggy and terrible.

Better than it use to be, so I'll give them that, atleast they are always improving.

It depends on what you're managing. I really yearn for Amazon's ability to check resources or check all of them in a certain view and apply a certain action to all of them, similar to typical webmail interfaces. Azure's is much more oriented around interacting with single resources at a time.

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