But pulling out the facts from the bag, it’s going to be a tuff job for Microsoft to challenge Amazon, especially in the cloud arena as Amazon is commonly regarded as the “King of the cloud.” With industrial strengthy servers and beefy internet connections, Amazon comes with a vast array of services for tech startups and established companies. Even some of the fastest growing companies like Instagram and Foursquare has opted the services of Amazon.

Google and Rackspace are among the others who are competing with Microsoft for the number-two spot in the cloud market.

 “It’s a two-horse race between us and Amazon,” an excited Nadella spoke to TheNewYorkTimes.

Nadella believes that the cloud is just not Amazon and we just have only got a glimpse of this very big technology.

“It’s still the early part of the cloud market. Clearly they have done a good job in one segment of it. But it will play out,” he said.

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