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My experience with azure is subpar : slow, deploys failing for no clear reason, terrible ui. Do you have bettee experience with it?

setq 10y ago
This. I get $150 credit with my MSDN account but it never gets used because paying for AWS is a better deal than dealing with Azure. Azure feels like Microsoft wrote it. Clunky, slow and unreliable.
- m1sta_ 10y ago
  Throw another delivery centre at it. They'll fix it.
divanvisagie 10y ago
I'm currently working on an azure based project where we have scripted all of our deploys in powershell. Pretty quick that way and that also means you dont have to deal with UI
- macca321 10y ago
  If you can wrap your head round the concept of a 'Resource Group'...
m_fayer 10y ago
I mostly use Azure for hobby/small/exploratory work, but I'm generally quite happy with it, sticking mostly to their PAAS offerings, and a Linux VM here and there. I never touch their UIs, which are terrible indeed. But the CLI tools do everything and I'm pretty happy with those.
program_monkey 10y ago
HN has been absolutely overwhelmed with Microsoft astroturfing. It's pretty incredible.
mcaravey 10y ago
I've been using Azure in various forms since beta days. Back then it felt very startup-like with half baked software and updates coming all the time. That is still how their new stuff is delivered, but I've rarely had issues with anything that is out of preview. Here what really sold Azure to me, the various companies I've worked for, etc. Azure allows you to do just about anything these days, and you can mix & match all sorts of different pieces of tech as you see fit, and its all the in one place. It's quite important for businesses that I have, for example, probably half a dozen ways to open a connection into my corporate network in order for my front end Azure-hosted API can access some ancient database. Microsoft knows how to make Azure appeal to businesses, since that is their bread and butter. One last thing: where I currently work we have been running or entire infrastructure on Azure since day 1. We have to architect our applications for the cloud, but the benefits have always been amazing. Whenever we get bigger customers that slam our infrastructure with traffic, we just push a button (or automatically) and we get more machines/bandwidth/storage, etc. Not once has there been feelings of regret for choosing Azure in the company. It's a safe bet.

setq 10y ago

This. I get $150 credit with my MSDN account but it never gets used because paying for AWS is a better deal than dealing with Azure. Azure feels like Microsoft wrote it. Clunky, slow and unreliable.

m1sta_ 10y ago
Throw another delivery centre at it. They'll fix it.

divanvisagie 10y ago

I'm currently working on an azure based project where we have scripted all of our deploys in powershell. Pretty quick that way and that also means you dont have to deal with UI

macca321 10y ago
If you can wrap your head round the concept of a 'Resource Group'...

m_fayer 10y ago

I mostly use Azure for hobby/small/exploratory work, but I'm generally quite happy with it, sticking mostly to their PAAS offerings, and a Linux VM here and there. I never touch their UIs, which are terrible indeed. But the CLI tools do everything and I'm pretty happy with those.

program_monkey 10y ago

HN has been absolutely overwhelmed with Microsoft astroturfing. It's pretty incredible.

mcaravey 10y ago

I've been using Azure in various forms since beta days. Back then it felt very startup-like with half baked software and updates coming all the time. That is still how their new stuff is delivered, but I've rarely had issues with anything that is out of preview. Here what really sold Azure to me, the various companies I've worked for, etc. Azure allows you to do just about anything these days, and you can mix & match all sorts of different pieces of tech as you see fit, and its all the in one place. It's quite important for businesses that I have, for example, probably half a dozen ways to open a connection into my corporate network in order for my front end Azure-hosted API can access some ancient database. Microsoft knows how to make Azure appeal to businesses, since that is their bread and butter. One last thing: where I currently work we have been running or entire infrastructure on Azure since day 1. We have to architect our applications for the cloud, but the benefits have always been amazing. Whenever we get bigger customers that slam our infrastructure with traffic, we just push a button (or automatically) and we get more machines/bandwidth/storage, etc. Not once has there been feelings of regret for choosing Azure in the company. It's a safe bet.