Choosing the right cloud platform: what actually matters
Every cloud comparison article lists the same feature matrices, and almost none of them help you decide. All three major platforms will run your workloads reliably. The differences that matter are closer to home.
Start with what you already license
Organisations that run Microsoft 365 and Dynamics usually find Azure integration, identity, and licensing economics hard to beat. Startups built on open source data stacks often lean toward the platform their team already knows.
- Existing licensing and support agreements
- Identity and directory integration
- Data residency obligations
- Skills your team already has
- Egress and data gravity
The best platform is the one your engineers can operate confidently at two in the morning during an incident.
BPS Tech cloud practice
Measure the exit before the entry
Moving compute is easy; moving accumulated data is not. Measure egress and data gravity before committing analytics workloads, and insist on infrastructure as code from day one so the choice stays reversible.
Final thoughts
Pick the platform your team can run, your licensing rewards, and your data can leave. Everything else on the feature matrix is a detail you can solve later.