Microsoft has been pushing really hard to make Azure a contender. And they&#x27;re right to do so, AWS is in a somewhat shakey position. They&#x27;re moving people over to VPCs but haven&#x27;t integrated their VPCs with their cloud services in a robust way, forcing the burden onto customers.<p>Anecdotally, friends of mine in the know tell me that it&#x27;s been a good year for GCE. I wonder if Azure is seeing an uptick as well.