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In enterprise there is two real options for cloud, azure and aws. Both are great, but a lot of us chose azure because we were already Microsoft shops. Their su
by eksemplar 8y ago
In enterprise there is two real options for cloud, azure and aws. Both are great, but a lot of us chose azure because we were already Microsoft shops.
Their support is excellent, you pay for it so that’s kind of natural, but if I submit an issue with a high importance rating they’ll be on the phone with me on the hour until it’s solved with no extra cost to me.
From a European perspective Microsoft were the first to adopt EU legislation. They were also the first to offer “private” azure hosting, where your data isn’t held on servers shared with anyone as well as letting you physically inspect your servers at the azure data farm. (Amazon does all this as well now, but they didn’t when we were chosing cloud.)
I’m extremely satisfied with how they operate for enterprise, how they adopt other technologies as first class citizens in their offered stack (we use a lot of python), and how accessible they are. It’s not just for support, if I want something added or changed I can ask them, and often it happens.
I really, really hate windows 10 though, so there is that. :p
- Findeton 8y agoAzure is not that great to be honest. Last time I used it (a couple of years ago), it happened to me that my VM was shut down and they sent me an email. Apparently the real hardware it was running in had a problem. That won't happen in AWS, where your VM will be automatically be moved to another server on the fly and you won't even notice. Hopefully they fixed that by now...
- insulanian 8y agoI'm not defending nor using Azure, but what you described happened to me two years ago on AWS. VM shut down due to hardware failure and I got an email requiring manual intervention from my side (starting the VM).
- nik736 8y agoWhile Azure isn't great at all the specific issue you have with it happens on AWS all the time.
- BinaryIdiot 8y ago> That won't happen in AWS, where your VM will be automatically be moved to another server on the fly and you won't even notice. Uh, what? Literally had that happen to a tiny micro a year back. Fortunately it was quick to recover from (I was using elastic beanstalk at the time) but this happens on AWS.
- andoma 8y agoYup. Has happened to me multiple times as well on AWS. GCP OTOH offers (optional) live migration of instances.