Four investments, the most important of which is probably this:
Second, Microsoft has set up an “Azure Cloud Hardware and Infrastructure Team” in Taiwan, using Taiwan as its Asian operations center; designing advanced cloud computing software and hardware infrastructure for artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), edge computing solutions; and providing the use of Microsoft’s global data center to increase the global importance of Taiwan’s server supply chain.
Good news for the country.
Coverage from Nikkei.
“We do not have any plan to move our data center [in Hong Kong] to Taiwan, we just hope to expand our data center footprint to Taiwan,” Microsoft’s Sun said on Monday.
Microsoft’s HK data center is huuuge and houses their cloud services for almost all of APAC. With recent developments they obviously need to diversify.
Oh, I wish Microsoft would just give up. Nobody likes Azure. There’s enough cloud solutions and Microsoft makes everything work in the worst possible way.
According to this Jim Cramer-type show, the most basic engineer at an Amazon data center in Taiwan makes $150,000 NT per month ($5,000 US).
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Despite the bugs, stale docs and ever changing APIs, Azure is winning new US customers over AWS and Google. Go figure!
Our place uses Azure and all MS apps, works pretty well…
When it works, it works. And it ties into Office 365. But Azure has undergone several iterations and because of they way Microsoft is organized, there are competing groups trying to offer similar services. Developing in Azure has been difficult due to lack of docs/stale docs and a lot of APIs are still in beta.