Ola's founder Bhavish Aggarwal announced on Wednesday that the ride-hailing company's entire workload has now transitioned from Microsoft Azure to their own cloud service, Krutrim.
This decision followed Aggarwal's frustrating experience with LinkedIn, which is owned by Microsoft.
"Completed. As promised, our Azure spending is now zero. All workloads are on @Krutrim cloud. Done within a week," Aggarwal shared on X.
Earlier this month, LinkedIn removed some of his posts without prior notification. Subsequently, Aggarwal wrote in a blog post, "Given that LinkedIn is owned by Microsoft and Ola is a significant Azure customer, we've decided to move our entire workload from Azure to our own Krutrim cloud within a week."
Aggarwal criticized LinkedIn, claiming its AI tool was promoting a political ideology to Indian users, calling it "unsafe and sinister."
He also mentioned his commitment to assist other developers in transitioning to "our own Indian stack."
"Over 2,500 developers have signed up! We will be working with everyone to migrate to our cloud services in the coming weeks," he wrote.
The issue began when Aggarwal posted on X about his views on gender pronouns, describing them as a "pronoun illness." In response, the LinkedIn bot used "they" and "their" to refer to Aggarwal.
Regarding gender inclusivity, he stated, "We don't need lectures from western companies on how to be inclusive."
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