For us a big part is that they have data centers in our country. It makes for improved latency and also makes a lot of our customers sleep better (justifiably so or not).
Amazon doesn't and regardless nobody feels comfortable using Google, who knows when they'll discontinue a product we would rely on.
Their sales folks are very good with C level folks, from the meetings I've sat in on. They will give you substantial credits and hands on support to build for you, depending on vertical and predicted future spend, especially if you're already at another cloud provider they're trying to pull you from.
God. I would hate to be the engineer forced to have enough Azure experience to be able to find these bugs and understand Azure’s infrastructure on this level.
Should have been addressed in the Geneva conventions.
> Reporting “theoretical” issues with validation as an Employee
Microsoft still has employees ? ;)
(Sorry. Low bar. But in all honesty I thought they outsourced the majority of ops. I was surprised to hear in recent news that they actually had that many employees left)
[2026-10-02]
beginning of curent month feels like two years ago when multiple vulns drop daily
Amazon doesn't and regardless nobody feels comfortable using Google, who knows when they'll discontinue a product we would rely on.
So not a lot left to choose from.
Well, when you're already paying Microsoft $/user/month for Intune, Teams&co. you might as well use Azure too.
Only one vendor relationship to manage, and I suspect you probably have to spend far less money than you do with AWS to get some personal attention.
likely been active since the inception of these capabilities
wonder if the recommendation to "add randomness to resource names" is because of this (unrelated security by obscurity lol)
Should have been addressed in the Geneva conventions.
Reporting “theoretical” issues with validation as an Employee gets you a lot of questions as to why you were looking.
Oh well.
That explains a lot.
Microsoft still has employees ? ;)
(Sorry. Low bar. But in all honesty I thought they outsourced the majority of ops. I was surprised to hear in recent news that they actually had that many employees left)