Steve Ballmer wishes Microsoft had entered the cloud computing market early

Steve Ballmer wishes Microsoft had entered the cloud computing market early

Steve Ballmer, the former Microsoft CEO, said he wished Microsoft had entered the computing market early, and he regrets that. Since Microsoft’s data centers are spread around the world, Microsoft could enter the cloud computing market more competitively than others, so it has opportunities to reach customers with less latency than others.

Amazon Web Services is in the lead

But the preference was given to those who preceded it, such as Amazon, which entered the cloud computing market very early, so it built the Amazon cloud platform and started its business in all cloud fields, such as renting computing infrastructure resources and cloud storage, and it gained the confidence of various companies, governments, and even educational institutions from universities and schools.

Microsoft Cloud revenue for the fourth quarter of 2020

This talk does not mean the failure of Microsoft’s cloud, but it could have been the best if it had entered the cloud market early, in the fourth quarter of 2020, Azure cloud achieved high revenues of more than $ 7 billion. According to analysts’ estimates. Amazon Cloud generated $ 12.7 billion in revenue for the fourth quarter of 2020.

Andy Jassy The upcoming CEO of Amazon

This massive AWS success led by Andy Jassey propelled him to the top of Amazon as it was announced that Andy Jassey would be Jeff Bezos’ successor to the Amazon giant later in 2021.
Steve Ballmer said that he wished to start with Aure as a service instead of starting with infrastructure as a service, then maybe the business would grow differently, and that the delay in starting it is around a year or two.

AWS first started computing and cloud storage services in 2006, while Microsoft caught up with it in 2008. Windows Azure, the infrastructure service competitor from Amazon, began in 2010.