Ola moves biz out of Microsoft to Krutrim; loss could be over Rs 100 crore for Microsoft in India

Ola founder and CEO Bhavish Aggarwal on Saturday said his company has decided to move its entire workload out of Microsoft Azure to its own cloud platform Krutrim within the next week. The move is a reaction to Microsoft-owned LinkedIn removing Aggarwal’s post on ‘pronoun illness’, in which he called out the platform for imposing a ‘forced ideology’ over gender pronouns.

Reportedly, this move will lead to a loss of over Rs 100 crore for Microsoft in India, as Ola is a big customer. “It (shifting operations from Azure to Krutrim) is a challenge as all developers know, but my team is so charged up about doing this,” Aggarwal posted on social media platform X.