You mean simply for data backup? Because there are only a handful of companies capable of what azure does and ms is by far the cheapest. Not to mention r&d and the cost to even get it running. Everything in azure is virtual to the consumer so more than likely they had to rent or buy servers from somewhere. We use physical server along with azure. So far I only know of google, amazon, as direct competitors vut there are about 15 such companies and a big chunk of them use google, amazon, or azure for structural stability. I'm talking about actual open source cloud computation, not cloud storage or streaming.
MS isn't the only company that has a cloud computing solution bruh. We got teams of indians bruh and are a worldwide company
. It was cheaper for us LONG TERM to develop our own cloud solution. As a matter of fact, one of our clients actually has a cloud solution as well that last I heard we were partnering with until our shyt gets built.







how many servers does Sony have?





MSFT for thinking I'll buy whatever they throw at me, And 

. So which one Is it courtney? Actually your beloved gears 2-3 was supposed to have dedicated servers but people still experienced lag 