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If you're already locked into msft, then yeah msft makes sense.

But one thing people often forget is that AWS is cheaper than everyone else. This matters to most companies.

Also, Azure is a pretty miserable dev experience for many of their services. Many of AWS smaller services aren't great, but better from what I've used/general sentiment.

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> AWS is cheaper than everyone else.

Can you provide a source for this please? I recently priced out AWS, Azure, and GCP for GPU workloads. I found that AWS and Azure were approximately on par, whereas GCP was significantly cheaper:

AWS p3.8xlarge: $12.24/hr [1]

Azure NC24 v3: $12.24/hr [2]

GCP n1-highmem-32: $8.311/hour [3]

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/p3/

[2] https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/virtual-ma...

[3] https://cloud.google.com/products/calculator/

That's just the single box though. What about the storage and managed services?

I agree with you that Azure is a catastrophically miserable dev experience, but it's a mistake to compare price based on list prices. I've worked with companies who are based in India whose Azure cost through a CSP was like 40% of list. I've also had customers get huge, huge discounts offered to them to use Google Cloud. I don't know how low Amazon goes.

> But one thing people often forget is that AWS is cheaper than everyone else.

GCP is, AFAIK, usually cheaper; but AWS is more established, and the “no one ever got fired for being buying...” player of public cloud (which has to chafe MSFT, since they pretty much displaced IBM in that role for on-prem.)

The thing there is that almost everyone is already dependent on Office. Breaking that is nearly impossible.

haha look at you two go

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