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I've been working with it for months (still do), and have never found it to be good or reliable. The endless-horizontal-growth is maddening. Horizontal scroll-i

I've been working with it for months (still do), and have never found it to be good or reliable. The endless-horizontal-growth is maddening. Horizontal scroll-in-scroll is very hard to do for users, why they thought it'd be a good idea is beyond me; you can't easily select stuff (e.g. CosmosDb database names, that get truncated if they're long) - and can't right-click to "inspect element" either, you have explicitly open "developer tools". Occasionally Firefox will go mad when Azure is open and spin up my fans like crazy. There are errors that you can get that are completely cryptic (forgot to fill in the "subnet" in HDInsight? Well sorry, your cluster is stuck in "validating" forever). Storage options are confusing - in AWS you have S3, here you have ADLS Gen1, Gen2, Blob storage which is actually "binary blob/page blob/ append blob" but is presented as "tables/ queues/blobs" and oh BTW ADLS Gen2 is based on it but Gen1 is not (you provision a gen2 acount from "storage accounts" but Gen1 has its own UI section). I could go on and on. It's not like Azure is completely bad, but I far prefer the developer experience of AWS. It's not perfect, but IMO it's much better.

GordonS 8y ago
Wow, seems like your experience is very different from mine or that of my co-workers! Regarding copying stuff, if you hover over just about any text element, a little 'copy' icon will appear. I like this feature.
- virgilp 8y ago
  > if you hover over just about any text element, a little 'copy' icon will appear. I like this feature. Think I didn't try that? Doesn't work on CosmosDB databases. Yes, for a lot of items it's true that "copy" is easy.... but when it's not easy, it's crazy hard. I'm guessing that your company doesn't have hundreds of Azure subscriptions (and the proportional number of other resources to manage, in them). When there are a lot of elements that you need to manage/ browse through/ look for, you start to appreciate the simplicity of the AWS ui, and the fact that it prioritizes "snappy" over "fancy". Azure might be great for an SMB, but I think for large enterprises, AWS is still unchallenged.
  - GordonS 8y ago
    I work for a megacorp (250k+ employees). We have a lot of subscriptions, and a lot of resources :) Just about everywhere I'd want to filter stuff in the Azure portal, there's a search box or/and filters. Honestly, I find it to be really snappy for me.

GordonS 8y ago

Wow, seems like your experience is very different from mine or that of my co-workers! Regarding copying stuff, if you hover over just about any text element, a little 'copy' icon will appear. I like this feature.

virgilp 8y ago
> if you hover over just about any text element, a little 'copy' icon will appear. I like this feature. Think I didn't try that? Doesn't work on CosmosDB databases. Yes, for a lot of items it's true that "copy" is easy.... but when it's not easy, it's crazy hard. I'm guessing that your company doesn't have hundreds of Azure subscriptions (and the proportional number of other resources to manage, in them). When there are a lot of elements that you need to manage/ browse through/ look for, you start to appreciate the simplicity of the AWS ui, and the fact that it prioritizes "snappy" over "fancy". Azure might be great for an SMB, but I think for large enterprises, AWS is still unchallenged.
- GordonS 8y ago
  I work for a megacorp (250k+ employees). We have a lot of subscriptions, and a lot of resources :) Just about everywhere I'd want to filter stuff in the Azure portal, there's a search box or/and filters. Honestly, I find it to be really snappy for me.