Ola Group of Companies’ founder and CEO Bhavish Aggarwal has confirmed that the company is severing ties with its existing cloud service provider, Microsoft Azure. In a post shared on social media platform X (earlier Twitter), Aggarwal also announced that the cab-hailing service is set to move its entire workload to the company’s own AI firm Krutrim.
This move comes days after Aggarwal’s post on “pronoun illness” was removed by Microsoft-owned job-search portal LinkedIn. He criticised Microsoft for removing his post from the social networking platform LinkedIn. Aggarwal claimed that Microsoft’s artificial intelligence (AI) tool was “imposing a political ideology on Indian users that’s unsafe, sinister”.
Ola’s plans to move from Microsoft’s Azure cloud service
In the X post, Aggarwal said: “Since LinkedIn is owned by Microsoft and Ola is a big customer of Azure, we’ve decided to move our entire workload out of Azure to our own Krutrim cloud within the next week. It is a challenge as all developers know, but my team is so charged up about doing this. Any other developer who wants to move out of Azure, we will offer a full year of free cloud usage. As long as you don’t go back to Azure after that! Mail us on exitazure@olakrutrim.com. Offer is perpetually open!”
How this move will affect Microsoft
According to a report by MoneyControl, ANI Technologies-owned Ola is one of the biggest consumers for Microsoft. With the company cutting ties with the tech giant would mean a loss of more than Rs 100 crores of business for the company’s Azure cloud service.
In 2017, Ola announced its partnership with Microsoft to build a new connected vehicle platform for car manufacturers worldwide. Since then, the cab-hailing platform has been a customer of the US-based company.
This move comes days after Aggarwal’s post on “pronoun illness” was removed by Microsoft-owned job-search portal LinkedIn. He criticised Microsoft for removing his post from the social networking platform LinkedIn. Aggarwal claimed that Microsoft’s artificial intelligence (AI) tool was “imposing a political ideology on Indian users that’s unsafe, sinister”.
Ola’s plans to move from Microsoft’s Azure cloud service
In the X post, Aggarwal said: “Since LinkedIn is owned by Microsoft and Ola is a big customer of Azure, we’ve decided to move our entire workload out of Azure to our own Krutrim cloud within the next week. It is a challenge as all developers know, but my team is so charged up about doing this. Any other developer who wants to move out of Azure, we will offer a full year of free cloud usage. As long as you don’t go back to Azure after that! Mail us on exitazure@olakrutrim.com. Offer is perpetually open!”
How this move will affect Microsoft
According to a report by MoneyControl, ANI Technologies-owned Ola is one of the biggest consumers for Microsoft. With the company cutting ties with the tech giant would mean a loss of more than Rs 100 crores of business for the company’s Azure cloud service.
In 2017, Ola announced its partnership with Microsoft to build a new connected vehicle platform for car manufacturers worldwide. Since then, the cab-hailing platform has been a customer of the US-based company.
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