Volpi: AWS holds an estimated 85% to 90% market share among developers
Mike Volpi · Fireside Chat: Mike Volpi, General Partner, Index Ventures (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC) · Nov 13, 2019 · at 33:06
Mike Volpi, General Partner at Index Ventures, comments on cloud market dynamics during a 2019 Q&A after Microsoft Azure was awarded the $10 billion U.S. DoD JEDI defense contract over Amazon Web Services.
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“If you actually pulled engineers on the street, you'd probably get 85, 90% market share with Amazon. So in my mind, no matter what the government decides on whether they use the Azure cloud or Amazon cloud, Amazon is stratospherically dominant amongst developers right now, still.”
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