Covering a wide array of technical topics from API testing to cloud services, this document shares insights on various programming, networking, and system design concepts for tech enthusiasts and professionals alike.
Why is AWS losing market share to Microsoft and Google? Probably because cloud cost optimisation and shift towards new type of workloads is hitting the biggest player the most.
Around 40-50% of AWS revenue comes from EC2, the most basic compute offering. This is a higher share than for Azure and GCP. Computing is the easiest cost to optimize, therefore hurting AWS the most. Google Cloud with focus on Data/AI has been consistently taking the market share from AWS/Azure and will soon have 20% of the Cloud market.
This great convenience and productivity booster also brings a whole new form of lock-in. Hybrid/multi-cloud setups, which seem to attract many architects' attention these days, are a good example of the kind of things you'll have to think of when dealing with lock-in. Let's say you have an application that you'd like to deploy to the cloud. Easy... See more