Senior executives from Google Cloud and Amazon Web Services (AWS) are throwing shade at Microsoft for his or her upcoming worth improve.
At the identical time of saying the discharge of its Azure Dedicated Host service; Microsoft additionally declared the rise within the worth of their cloud and software program providers earlier this month:
We’re updating the outsourcing phrases for Microsoft on-premises licenses to make clear the excellence between on-premises/conventional outsourcing and cloud providers and create extra constant licensing phrases throughout multitenant and devoted hosted cloud providers. Beginning October 1, 2019, on-premises licenses bought with out Software Assurance and mobility rights can’t be deployed with devoted hosted cloud providers provided by the next public cloud suppliers: Microsoft, Alibaba, Amazon (together with VMware Cloud on AWS), and Google. They might be known as “Listed Providers”.
The utterly unintended impact of the coverage can be that it could be dramatically cheaper to run Microsoft’s software program on their very own cloud quite than on AWS or Google Cloud.
Google Cloud President, Robert Enslin, had this to say on Twitter:
Shelf-ware. Complex pricing. And now vendor lock-in. Microsoft is taking its biggest hits from the ’90s to the cloud.
Amazon Web Services Chief Technology Officer, Werner Vogels, was additionally fast to chip in:
Yet one other bait+change by $MSFT, eliminating license advantages to drive MS use. 1st, MS took away BYOL SQL Server on RDS, now no Windows upgrades w/BYOL on#AWS. Hard to belief a co. who raises costs, eliminates advantages, + restricts freedom of selection.
AWO’s Vice President, Sandy Carter, was additionally disapproving of the choice; making a LinkedIn submit titled: Why AWS is the perfect place on your Windows workloads, and the way Microsoft is altering their licensing to attempt to awkwardly drive you into Azure.
In the weblog submit, Carter implies that the choice is a matter of abuse of energy:
Microsoft needs you to consider that that is simply “removal of outsourcing rights”, however Microsoft is seeking to prohibit what pc you need to use. And what cloud.
In Microsoft’s defence, the corporate claimed that their providing of extra providers, in addition to a rise in competitors, is accountable for the worth rise. Alternatively, we might simply be seeing a little bit of the “old Microsoft” come out as they wrestle to dominate their new progress centre.
