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Peak AWS?

Amazon’s AWS in India is 2X its largest competitor, Microsoft’s Azure. Its market share, though, has fallen. For the first time

13/07/18

Arundhati Ramanathan

AWS’ cost has become a sticky point for startups, some of whom are migrating out

AWS, Google’s Cloud Platform and Microsoft’s Azure are matched feature for feature

AWS is trying to up the ante in enterprises, where it is yet to scale. Similarly, Azure is focusing on startups

Even though revenues from India amount to little for now, India is a must-win market for all the providers

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Amazon seems rather inspired by its name. Amazonian, in popular culture, connotes aggressive, large, and also nurturing towards its ilk. And what could be better nurtured than its cloud infrastructure offering, Amazon Web Services (AWS)? AWS, in itself, could rank as the fifth largest software company in the world after Microsoft, IBM, Oracle and SAP….

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