 "Flipkart sides with Microsoft in fight against Amazon on the cloud")
India is a hotbed for battles between the world’s leading providers of cloud computing – Amazon, Microsoft, and Google. The fast-growing mobile internet, coupled with the boom in startups, makes this one of the most hotly contested markets.
Today, Microsoft scored a point in this battle. India’s leading ecommerce site Flipkart adopted Microsoft Azure as its exclusive public cloud platform. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and Flipkart co-founder and CEO Binny Bansal announced the partnership this morning at an event in Bangalore.
The alliance has a touch of Indian masala because Amazon’s ecommerce site is giving Flipkart a hard time in
