Background
Public Cloud is here to stay, and for me it's about enabling business agility and improving time to value, in addition to all the great techie benefits. In the Enterprise space, I'm seeing Microsoft Azure performing very strongly as the most natural fit for large corporations with existing (EA) license agreements and identity (AD) infrastructure already in place. Added to that, Microsoft has been running SAP for over 20 years and has moved their core SAP systems onto their Azure public cloud platform. Their level of knowledge around running large-scale SAP on their hyperscale infrastructure is pretty obvious when you consult their SAP on Azure web page.
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