The move comes days after Aggarwal's post on “pronoun disease” was removed by Microsoft-owned job search portal LinkedIn.He criticized Microsoft for removing his post from the social media platform LinkedIn. Aggarwal claimed that Microsoft's artificial intelligence (AI) tool was “imposing a dangerous and sinister political ideology on Indian users.”
Ola plans to leave Microsoft's Azure cloud service
In post X, Aggarwal said: “Since LinkedIn is owned by Microsoft and Ola is a large Azure customer, we have decided to move our entire workload from Azure to our own Krutrim cloud over the next week. It's a challenge as every developer knows, but my team is so motivated to do it. Any other developers who want to leave Azure will get a full year of free cloud usage. As long as you don't return to Azure after that! Email us at [email protected]. The offer is perpetually open! »
How this decision will affect Microsoft
According to a MoneyControl report, Ola, owned by ANI Technologies, is one of the largest consumers of Microsoft. If the company cuts ties with the tech giant, it would mean a loss of over Rs 100 crore of business for the company's Azure cloud service.
In 2017, Ola announced its partnership with Microsoft to create a new connected vehicle platform for automakers around the world. Since then, the taxi platform has become a client of the US-based company.
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