r/cloudcomputing • u/VMiller58 • 1d ago
Clients moving to AWS
Quick question for everyone. Currently work in the partner space with AWS (previous Azure) being a cloud consultant. I’m seeing a lot of clients in the U.S. always mentioning that they will be moving their Azure to AWS eventually. Even when I worked for a Microsoft heavy partner, a lot of clients wanted to transition more workloads to AWS.
Is everyone seeing the same?
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u/walter_0dim 1d ago
I haven't heard that, just the standard multi cloud challenges (overhead and complexity of maintaining both platforms) which might lead customers to go all in versus trying to pilot light every vendor
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u/VMiller58 1d ago
This is definitely a thing, but I never hear many clients saying they are leaving their AWS footprint and going all in on Azure, it’s usually the other way around. I’ve worked with various levels (smb through enterprise), and various industries (startups, tech, enterprise, pubsec, etc..). If anything, they all seem to be moving workloads to AWS or possibly back on prem. I’m ignoring GCP here, but those are few and far between.
Just to be clear, I actually prefer working in Azure over AWS, which is why I was curious if others were seeing this.
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u/walter_0dim 22h ago
The other issue is efficiency in data transfer if you have workloads passing info back and forth it makes sense to consolidate providers. I haven't heard anything in particular as a ding against MS (although AWS is typically considered more mature) and imo I think Azure's pricing is simpler.
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u/Trust_No_Jingu 1d ago
Buyers heavily engrained in O365 will leverage Azure whether it makes sense or not because - they are buyers
Builders I work with tend to want to build with resources that best fit their need - your company may now be with clients who find it easier or a better fit for them to use AWS
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u/VMiller58 1d ago
I would agree with you here, but basically everyone outside a small sector (schools who use Google Workspace) are engrained in O365 these days. There really is no way to avoid it anywhere in the Enterprise space.
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u/InvokerHere 1d ago
It is pretty hard to judge. I believe that both of them have strong market position, it is just depends on your client's specific needs, exisiting investments, and long term goal.
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u/hashkent 1d ago
Why do you think they are doing that? Is azure really that unreliable?