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Re: Ask HN: Azure customers, why do you host with Azure over AWS or GCP?

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Post by tcbasche » Wed, Jul 15, 2020, 1:00 AM UTC

verdverm wrote: post #10

emeerson wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Exciting is also a confusing property for me. AWS has offered a superset of services beyond what I or colleagues have ever been able to apply.

By exciting, I mean pushing out research and open source, which eventually makes it into products. I have yet to see anything serious or popular comes out of Amazon. Compare this to Google and Microsoft and you can see a clear difference

> serious or popular

I'm still a little confused. What's not serious or popular coming out of Amazon? What's the different in Microsoft and GCP?

Re: Ask HN: Azure customers, why do you host with Azure over AWS or GCP?

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Post by verdverm » Thu, Jul 16, 2020, 2:31 AM UTC

tcbasche wrote: post #11

verdverm wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

By exciting, I mean pushing out research and open source, which eventually makes it into products. I have yet to see anything serious or popular comes out of Amazon. Compare this to Google and Microsoft and you can see a clear difference

> serious or popular I'm still a little confused. What's not serious or popular coming out of Amazon? What's the different in Microsoft and GCP?

Kubernetes, Golang, Cuelang, Tensorflow ML research in particular for Google

Visual Studio Code, WSL, .Net on Linux, Hololens 2, MRTK, a number of interesting ML tools and research.

Amazon... do you know of any examples?

Largely GOOG and MSFT are giving back through research and open source while AMZN is rarely seen doing this and with little fanfare

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