Are AWS and VMware really teaming up to take Microsoft’s Azure down?

According to reports, Wall Street says Amazon and VMware are teaming up to take down Microsoft in what has been dubbed the 'cloud wars'. But, what do the tech experts think? At AWS reInvent in Las Vegas last week, it was revealed that AWS and VMware are building one cloud on two platforms.Traditionally AWS cloud has been somewhat fenced off, but no longer. In two major commitments on data centre infrastructure, the two organisations announced. AWS’ Outposts venture, allowing for Amazon-branded server hardware to host its cloud services on-premises, will also enable management of that hardware through VMware Cloud. VMware Cloud Foundation on EC2 will allow existing VMware customer data centres that are deploying containerised apps with Kubernetes, to utilise AWS-based facilities, including hosting and storage.