[paunchy]

We have no Microsoft affinity but have moved our large SaaS application from AWS to Azure. Our tech stack is 80% linux / OSS and 20% .NET. And we're deprecating the MSFT portion as quickly as possible.

For us, Azure was a big win for security compliance and data sovereignty. Those factors triggered the switch.

After the switch, we came to realize that Azure is much stronger in support and in the ability to interface with the Azure product teams to help guide the direction of the platform.

I've seen some recent reports that Azure is growing twice as fast as AWS so I wouldn't count them out by any means.