Cloud services have something to offer almost every kind of business. In fact, if you believe Amazon’s hype, we’re heading for a world where companies of all sizes run entirely on remote servers. Microsoft – perhaps understandably, given its roots – treads a little more cautiously and focuses on hybrid architectures. Either way, it seems certain that the cloud is integral to the future of business.
But it’s not always easy to tell which company’s cloud platform will be the best fit for a particular role in a particular organisation. That’s partly because the different providers make broadly the same promises, enabling you to deploy computing services almost on a whim, and scale them up and down as needed.
While the fundamentals might seem identical, as soon as you start to look in depth at the two biggest platforms – those being, without question, Amazon and Microsoft – you run into nuances and differences of philosophy that can have an enormous impact on either the service or the customer.
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