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> their a distant #2 in the cloud space

I'd challenge that assertion outside the SV world. 2nd place definitely, but distant no so much, at least in the circles I work in.

According to this analysis of Q4 2018, AWS has twice the market share (32.3%) of MS's (16.5):

I would call that "distant."

This is completely subjective, but I wouldn't consider a 16% difference all that distant, myself. ("Twice" can be misleading; 2% is twice 1%.)