Minecraft finished using AWS and shift to Microsoft Azure

Minecraft finished using AWS and shift to Microsoft Azure 

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Minecraft is one of the most popular and the best-selling video games likewise was acquired from Mojang by Microsoft in 2014, and has been running its private Realm servers on Amazon's AWS servers for years.

But that will soon change. According to CNBC, Mojang plans to shift  Minecraft from Amazon Web Services (AWS) to  Microsoft Azure infrastructure. Previously, Minecraft, which has about 126 million monthly active players worldwide, was hosted on one of Azure's biggest competitors, but Microsoft is now looking to bring it back into its own structure.

This is an important decision for Microsoft in fact  it allows it to offset the costs of maintaining Realm servers and to deny this activity to one of its main competitors. According to a Microsoft spokesperson who spoke to CNBC, "Mojang Studios has used AWS(Amazon Web Services) in the past, but we have migrated all cloud services to Azure in recent years." According to the same spokesperson, The move t to Azure will be completed by the end of the year.

Moving more of its own software to Azure can help Microsoft argue to its customers that the company is not looking for the computing, storage and networking resources to provide its online services anywhere else.

The U.S. company had made a similar deal with LinkedIn, transferring the social network to Azure .Most of Microsoft's consumer and commercial properties, including the Communication Teams app, already rely on Azure. Last year, two and a half years after completing the acquisition of the corporate social network LinkedIn, Microsoft announced that it would migrate LinkedIn from its own dedicated data centers to Azure.

Microsoft had done the same thing in the past

.Microsoft Azure has been a great success for the company in recent years. In fact it is growing faster than many other Segments of Microsoft, allowing the structure to less rely on its long-standing properties like Windows and Office. This trend is generally reflected in its quarterly results, which are often driven by the good figures of its cloud division.