Despite 'key' partnership with AWS, Meta taps up Microsoft Azure for AI work

Meta’s AI business unit set up shop in Microsoft Azure this week and announced a strategic partnership it says will advance PyTorch development on the public cloud. The deal [PDF] will see Mark Zuckerberg’s umbrella company deploy machine-learning workloads on thousands of Nvidia GPUs running in Azure. While a win for …

[Anonymous Coward]

Different strokes for different data

Since I don't run a mega meta multinational, I've never researched it, but it makes sense that each cloudy provider has its strengths and weaknesses (although finding them goes beyond cloudy and into foggy or even pea soup territory).

But I suspect that Suckerberg's primary concern is making sure he has an appendage (let's say feet in AWS and Azure, arms in Google and IBM) because that lets him bully the clouds into discounts and perks with the threat of shifting his business among them.

[Claptrap314]

Perfect!

Any data not deliberately sold by Facebook can now be siphoned off from Azure!

For crying in... ----------->

[Anonymous Coward]

Of course. AWS is a zoo of crappy open source crud bolted together whereas Azure is an integrated single entity.

[Robert Grant]

Maybe you should try Azure.