Thanks to a 50% growth rate in Azure web sites since May 2013, Microsoft has overtaken Amazon specifically in the hosting of Windows based public facing web sites.
The crazy statistic is this one: this currently represents only 1% of the world’s Windows based public facing web sites. Imagine the growth potential for Azure to dominate such a fragmented market…
Netcraft also published a breakdown of web sites per Azure region. This shows where these web sites are located: