Amazon and Microsoft, two archivists in cloud computing and rigorous competitors for Seattle's technological talent, cooperate much more.
Earlier this week we saw the wedding of Alexa's virtual assistant from Amazon and Cortana from Microsoft.
Then, on Thursday, the companies announced that they were joining together so that programmers could more easily take the code they handle in Microsoft tools and publish it in the Amazon cloud.
On Thursday, Microsoft launched a blog post detailing how its local Team Foundation Server software and its cloud service in Visual Studio Team Services can connect to various Amazon Web Services tools.
Once the new tools are installed, developers can transfer content to the widely used S3 storage service of AWS, automate implementations with the AWS CodeDeploy tool and execute applications with the server service without Lambda server, among others, without leaving the limits of Microsoft products
To build integrations, Amazon engineers have collaborated with members of the Microsoft Visual Studio ALM Rangers group, Microsoft program manager Joseph Bourne wrote in the blog entry. The ALM Rangers group is responsible for providing out-of-band solutions for missing features or guidelines, Microsoft said.
In fact, Microsoft provides a new revenue stream for AWS, the largest cloud around and the top competitor of Microsoft's Azure cloud. This is notable because historically, Microsoft has announced the possibility that people use their source code management programs with Azure.
But if Microsoft is serious about making things as simple as possible for end users, the move is logical.
The opening fits in with Microsoft's recent move led by Satya Nadella to work with non-Microsoft platforms. For example, Microsoft has allowed users to use Linux on their Windows 10 operating system.
