Summary Bullets:

• Microsoft Azure’s recent noteworthy announcements include joining CNCF and previewing an easy-to-deploy container service.
• Microsoft’s moves not only highlight efforts to make Azure more usable for customers and developers, but also seek to position AWS as an inflexible walled garden.

Microsoft had a banner week in the hotly contested cloud wars. Amid claims as the top revenue earner against AWS, Salesforce and others (with an annual ‘intelligent cloud’ revenue run rate of $18.9 billion), Microsoft rolled out an aggressive strategy to provide the easiest on-ramp into the cloud via a new container service. Continue reading “Microsoft Slams AWS via Container Offering and Kubernetes Backing” →