Microsoft drops out of top three for UK software and IT services

Amazon Web Services jumped to the top of the UK software and IT services industry in 2022, knocking TCS off its perch as Microsoft's growth lagged its rivals and dropped out of the top three. This is according to customer spending figures compiled by venerable analyst TechMarketView (TMV), which showed the local market grew by …

[Steve Davies 3]

Their recent record speaks for itself

How many days of outage has AZURE experienced so far this year?

Clouds may come and clouds may go but the only sure fire thing is that the operators will piss all over you when you least expect it.

[Plest]

Re: Their recent record speaks for itself

As anyone who's studied the AWS certs will know that Azure and AWS each went for different base architectures under their cloud setups. Azure's core is inherently flawed when it comes to resilience, AWS is far from perfect but AWS's core can take a good kicking before it starts to crack.

[Kerfufflinator]

Re: Their recent record speaks for itself

Why do you say that Azure's design is inherently flawed when it comes to resilience? Genuine question.

[Zippy´s Sausage Factory]

Re: Their recent record speaks for itself

Maybe, like me, because he's had to use it?

[chickenrun]

Re: Their recent record speaks for itself

Which certs? I found them all pretty superficial except for the Professional level.

No understanding of infrastructure required just memories all the service functions.

[Tim 11]

Is this a relevant benchmark?

Does it make any sense to combine cloud platform suppliers with professional services companies in the same league table? I'd admit that Microsoft and others do both things but they are very separate parts of the business

[PBuon]

Productivity?!

We can speak about productivity when salaries increase at the same level as inflation and the cost of living. I’m effectively earning less, so my productivity may be a little less.

[steelpillow]

Amazon

Not bad for an outfit that started out selling the O'Reilly series of open-license technical books on equally open-license software to geeks online.

Shame the morals never made it through the way the profits did.