Google Plots Course to Overtake Cloud Rivals
Microsoft is pushing Azure <i>hard</i>. Not to disclose specifics but there are cases where deals with Microsoft for unrelated things are reliant on the company adopting&#x2F;moving parts of their work to Azure, with <i>huge</i> amounts of free credits for the first year as a sweetener. It&#x27;s not in writing on contracts but it&#x27;s very much a requirement.<p>I&#x27;m not sure how they can hope to become the number 2 cloud provider when pitted against that. Say what you want about Microsoft but they are in a really good position to take large chunks of the enterprise cloud market, and that&#x27;s where the money is.