Amazon: Some Trouble Down Under?

January 29, 2020

DarkCyber noted “Case Study: Why the Australian Electoral Commission Migrated to Microsoft Azure.” On the surface, the write up is another PR output. When considered in terms of the competition between Amazon and Microsoft for juicy non commercial jobs, the article provides a check list of what’s lacking in Amazon AWS. DarkCyber identified these “advantages” for the Redmond brain trust which finds questionable methods for altering a user’s Windows 7 machine amusing. (This black screen incident provides a reminder that PR check points may not match a firm’s actual behavior.)

Here are the upsides for Azure, presumably without a black screen on Luddites’ Windows 7 computers:

Quick turn around
Publicly exposed APIs
API management tools
API creation tools
Real time information feeds
Ability to create an “express route” for speedy data communications
Zero failure
Ability to support self service from users
A customer or user service portal
A much loved integrator.

What was the deciding factor? The much loved vendor it seems.

Does Amazon match up on these check points? Sure.

Marketing presentations are one thing. The much loved vendor is another.

Stephen E Arnold, January 29, 2020

Written by Stephen E. Arnold · Filed Under Amazon, Cloud computing, Microsoft, News

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