Microsoft today announced the general availability of its IaaS offering and offered to price match AWS for storage, compute and network bandwidth in the cloud.

IaaS, short for Infrastructure as a Service, is a cloud computing model that offers on-demand access to compute, storage and networking resources.

Cloud IaaS market leaders AWS, Microsoft, Google Cloud, Alibaba and Huawei generate $120 billion in public cloud Infrastructure as-a-Service, Gartner reports.

Grab some popcorn. Microsoft has thrown down the proverbial gauntlet for Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), upgrading its Azure cloud service for direct competition with Amazon Web Services (AWS).

While AWS is used by the majority of enterprise IaaS customers, Microsoft Azure is the next most likely IaaS vendor to be evaluated, a recent survey finds.

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