Hi Nort,

Our rationale for switching from AWS to Azure:

• Most importantly, quite a few of our customers/prospects have company policies prohibiting use of AWS or have a strong preference not to be on AWS.
• Many of our customers are using Azure for their own applications and Azure-to-Azure integrations will be easier and better.
• Additionally AIMMS expects Azure to be a better technical and better business partner.

We do believe our Azure cloud platform has some advantages over our AWS cloud platform:

• It has been completely re-engineered, using our learnings from 5+ years serving customers on the cloud and new technologies such as AKS.
• It has even better security arrangements than our AWS cloud, because we are using the services of a Microsoft Azure Expert partner for building and running the platform.
• It will increasingly integrate with other Azure services to help our customers build more powerful applications and integrations more easily.

Regarding your 2nd question: On our Azure cloud we apply the same limits for CPU power and memory volumes as on our AWS cloud platform. When a customers needs more than that we are happy to explore ways to cater for that, because we are not anywhere near the physical limits of Azure.

I hope this answers your questions and please do not hesitate to let me know if you have more questions.

Kind regards,

Jan-Willem