“Done..”: Ola CEO Bhavish Aggarwal does this ‘within a week’ after announcing decision to end ties with Microsoft cloud

Aggarwal’s on Linkedin and Microsoft’s wokeness

Ola founder Bhavish Aggarwal has said that the ride-hailing platform’s entire workload has now been shifted from Microsoft Azure cloud service to his own Cloud ‘ Krutrim ’. The announcement comes about a week after Aggarwal said the company is severing ties with its existing cloud service, Microsoft Azure.“Done. As committed, Azure spend is now 0. All workloads on @Krutrim cloud. Within a week,” Aggarwal wrote on X.Aggarwal, in his post, also mentioned that he will help other developers exit and move to “our own Indian stack”.“More than 2,500 devs have signed up!! Will be working with everyone to get onto our cloud services over the coming weeks,” he wrote in the post.Earlier this month, LinkedIn deleted his posts without notifying him. In the initial post, Aggarwal termed the ‘gender pronoun’ culture an “illness”, which was removed by Microsoft-owned job-search portal LinkedIn. He complained about his post being taken down by LinkedIn twice.After the fiasco, the Ola founder said, “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”.He criticised LinkedIn, saying their AI tool was imposing a political ideology on Indian users which is “unsafe and sinister”.Things began when Ola founder took to X to share his thoughts on gender pronouns and shared a post in which the LinkedIn AI bot used "they" and "their" to address Aggarwal. He even said, “We don’t need lectures from western companies on how to be inclusive”.