Ola To Shift Entire Workload To Sister Firm Krutrim
The decision comes as a riposte to Microsoft subsidiary LinkedIn blocking a post by the Ola founder on May 6.
Photo Curtesy: Bhavish Aggarwal's post on X.
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Bhavish Aggarwal, founder, Ola and Krutrim AI has said that Ola group will snap ties with Microsoft’s Azure cloud and begin using the cloud service of its sister firm Krutrim AI.
The decision comes as a riposte to Microsoft subsidiary LinkedIn blocking a post by the Ola founder on May 6.
In a post on the professional networking site, Aggarwal had termed the usage of the pronoun ‘they’ an “illness”, prompting LinkedIn to take it down on the grounds that it fell afoul of its community policies.
In turn, Aggarwal said that the Ola group of companies would move their businesses inhouse.
“Since LinkedIn is owned by Microsoft and Ola is a big customer of Azure, we’ve decided to move our entire workload out of Azure to our own @Krutrim cloud within the next week…” Aggarwal said in a post on microblogging site X.
“Any other developer who wants to move out of Azure, we will offer a full year of free cloud usage. As long as you don’t go back to Azure after that,” he wrote.
<blockquote class=”twitter-tweet”><p lang=”en” dir=”ltr”>On <a href=”https://twitter.com/LinkedIn?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”>@Linkedin</a>, <a href=”https://twitter.com/Microsoft?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”>@Microsoft</a> and their wokeness.<br><br>As an Indian institution, Ola is for genuine actions on diversity. We run one of the largest women only automotive plants. Not 1 out of 10 lines, or a small section, but the whole plant! Almost 5000 women now and will grow to tens of…</p>— Bhavish Aggarwal (@bhash) <a href=”https://twitter.com/bhash/status/1789217759378993611?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”>May 11, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async src=”https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js” charset=”utf-8″></script>
Agarwal’s combative announcement comes just days after Krutrim AI, the artificial intelligence unicorn founded by him, opened up its cloud infrastructure and cloud services for business.
Bhavish Aggarwal, founder, Ola and Krutrim AI has said that Ola group will snap ties with Microsoft’s Azure cloud and begin using the cloud service of its sister firm Krutrim AI.
The decision comes as a riposte to Microsoft subsidiary LinkedIn blocking a post by the Ola founder on May 6.
In a post on the professional networking site, Aggarwal had termed the usage of the pronoun ‘they’ an “illness”, prompting LinkedIn to take it down on the grounds that it fell afoul of its community policies.
