> Makes me wonder why enterprises still flock there

Well, when you're already paying Microsoft $/user/month for Intune, Teams&co. you might as well use Azure too.

Only one vendor relationship to manage, and I suspect you probably have to spend far less money than you do with AWS to get some personal attention.

Same reason as it was in 2002. “No one ever got fired for buying Microsoft.”

I do .NET full time, every shop I've worked at was on Azure. It makes the most sense for .NET developers, but I'd personally prefer to just rent dedicated servers at this point.

For us a big part is that they have data centers in our country. It makes for improved latency and also makes a lot of our customers sleep better (justifiably so or not).

Amazon doesn't and regardless nobody feels comfortable using Google, who knows when they'll discontinue a product we would rely on.

So not a lot left to choose from.

Their sales folks are very good with C level folks, from the meetings I've sat in on. They will give you substantial credits and hands on support to build for you, depending on vertical and predicted future spend, especially if you're already at another cloud provider they're trying to pull you from.

Feels. AKA stupidity, ultimately.