Ola moves all work from Microsoft Azure to its own cloud due to concerns surrounding LinkedIn.

Bhavish Aggarwal, the founder of Ola, announced on Wednesday that the entire workload of their ride-hailing platform has now been shifted from Microsoft Azure cloud service to their own Cloud called 'Krutrim'. This decision comes after Aggarwal expressed his frustration with the professional network LinkedIn, which is owned by Microsoft.

Aggarwal took to a social media platform, X, to share the news and wrote, "Done. As committed, our Azure spend is now at 0. All workloads are now on our own cloud, Krutrim. This transition was completed within a week." This move was prompted by LinkedIn's deletion of his posts without informing him. In response, Aggarwal wrote a blog post where he stated, "Since LinkedIn is owned by Microsoft and Ola is a major customer of Azure, we have decided to move our entire workload to our own Krutrim cloud within the next week."

In his blog post, Aggarwal also criticized LinkedIn for their AI tool's imposition of a political ideology on Indian users, which he deemed as "unsafe and sinister". He further mentioned that he will assist other developers in moving to their own Indian stack, stating, "More than 2,500 developers have already signed up! We will be working with everyone to help them transition to our cloud services in the upcoming weeks."

This entire saga began when Aggarwal expressed his thoughts on gender pronouns in a post on X, referring to it as "pronoun illness". In response, the LinkedIn bot used the pronouns "they" and "their" to address Aggarwal. In his post, Aggarwal stated, "When it comes to gender inclusivity, we do not need lectures from western companies on how to be inclusive."

Aggarwal's decision to shift their workload to their own cloud has received positive responses, with many developers expressing their interest in joining their cloud services. This move not only showcases Aggarwal's determination to stand by his values but also highlights the importance of supporting and promoting homegrown businesses.

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