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0 pointsSpooky232y ago0 comments

There’s a bias here for AWS because they were the early adopter product and have traction with startups.

I think Google is more creative on the business side with GCP and is doing well in the market in a lot of ways. AWS does the circa 1985 “Hi, we’re IBM, fuck you” thing.

Azure doesn’t get the grief GCP does because MS service growth is driven by really complicated deals. Few of the types of people who post here understand it.

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JumpCrisscross2y ago

> Azure doesn’t get the grief GCP does because MS service growth is driven by really complicated deals

The kind crafted by competent sales teams in it for the long haul. Not the rotating cast of characters at Google.

Spooky23OP2y ago

Lol. Those account managers these days get purged pretty quickly. MS isn’t Oracle, but it isn’t 2003 either.

“It would be a shame if those O365 E5 went up 30%. How about you buy 50% of your spend on these credits that fell off the truck, and we can forget about that?”

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