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I imagine there must be a scale where Azure is pleasant. Certainly, Microsoft seems to do a great job of marketing it to the sorts of giant Windows-and-Office c

I imagine there must be a scale where Azure is pleasant. Certainly, Microsoft seems to do a great job of marketing it to the sorts of giant Windows-and-Office companies that might not want to sign on for a standard AWS package. But all of my experiences (up through "startup" size), and virtually all the stories I hear from below "major corporation", are terrible. Endless compatibility issues, awful interfaces, flatly inaccurate documentation, and support which is more time-consuming than GCP's approach of "buzz off" but equally unhelpful.

dragonwriter 8y ago
> I imagine there must be a scale where Azure is pleasant. Certainly, Microsoft seems to do a great job of marketing it to the sorts of giant Windows-and-Office companies that might not want to sign on for a standard AWS package. I work at what has been all-in Windows-.Net-Office enterprise, and despite an existing investment in Azure AD that we’re staying with for now, the experience with trying to work with Azure has been such that our comprehensive cloud transition effort is centered around AWS (which seems like it is going to have a side effect of making us less of a Windows and .NET shop, as well.)
eropple 8y ago
> I imagine there must be a scale where Azure is pleasant. I do not. I imagine that there is a point at which the decision-makers and the Azure sales team can have many lunches and have many Serious Conversations. The further away purchase power is from implementation responsibility, the more likely one is to wind up hands-on with something as immediately-obviously deficient as Azure.