AWS: the surprise choice for your Microsoft-based applications?
Summary
Andy Jassy, CEO of AWS, once famously addressed the question “Are Microsoft catching you up?” with the answer “There is no compression algorithm for experience. There’s a great article by Corey Quinn about Azure’s recent capacity woes, describing how it risks damaging the overall perception of public cloud. Developers want to focus on applications and business logic, delivering functionality to customers rapidly – they don’t want to change their tooling unnecessarily or have to think about undifferentiated heavy lifting. Application modernisation is an important enabler for realising the benefits of cloud – faster innovation, lower costs, improved reliability and security. You could change how your compute runs – e.g. containerising your Windows application, or making more use of serverless with AWS Lambda or Azure Functions.