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The new Microsoft is good and Nadella is awesome. The one product that really sucks from this Microsoft is Azure. I commented in a thread before Azure is the a

The new Microsoft is good and Nadella is awesome. The one product that really sucks from this Microsoft is Azure. I commented in a thread before Azure is the absolute worst cloud provider amongst the big three after we thoroughly evaluated all three. AWS is the best and GCP is next. But due to management pressure we had to go with Azure. Unfortunately the best product does not always win in the enterprise. (That is why Steve Jobs never wanted to sell directly to enterprises).

TomMarius 8y ago
Could you please go more in depth? What is so good about Amazon and what is wrong about Azure? Thank you! The thing is that it seems to be the opposite when you're looking at it as a non-technical manager.
- victor106 8y ago
  We had about 70 pages of solid analysis done on this that I unfortunately can’t share but some of the highlights:- 1. Terrible UI 2. Unclear Documentation 3. Frequent service outages. 4. Scalability issues, they were unable to scale a server in prod past 1000 connections where as in AWS/GCP they were able to 10x that with similar server specs. Something to do with how server defaults were set 5. Severe performance degradation and network exhaustion. To be fair there were some positives but nothing exceptional. But end of the day it kind of doesn't matter as Azure is going to be used in enterprises just because they have the legacy MSFT sales force that is tight with managements high up in the org. No wonder MSFT hit $1T. Its such a shame for our industry though. Engineering teams at other cloud providers sweat and toil to get things right for their customers whereas MSFT uses other means to beat them. Hopefully they can at least fix things after they get in. But we know the chance of that happening is slim.
  - nojvek 8y ago
    It’s just not Azure. Microsoft has a cultural problem of treating designers as second class citizens. Only some teams get the value of good design and UX.
huzaif 8y ago
I am curious to see your findings (if possible). We are betting big on Azure and have found it to be pretty compatible with our needs. However we may have some blind spots.
- huzaif 8y ago
  Right on queue, Azure is currently having some pretty massive issues. All our deployments are having issues. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/status/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/status/

TomMarius 8y ago

Could you please go more in depth? What is so good about Amazon and what is wrong about Azure? Thank you! The thing is that it seems to be the opposite when you're looking at it as a non-technical manager.

victor106 8y ago
We had about 70 pages of solid analysis done on this that I unfortunately can’t share but some of the highlights:- 1. Terrible UI 2. Unclear Documentation 3. Frequent service outages. 4. Scalability issues, they were unable to scale a server in prod past 1000 connections where as in AWS/GCP they were able to 10x that with similar server specs. Something to do with how server defaults were set 5. Severe performance degradation and network exhaustion. To be fair there were some positives but nothing exceptional. But end of the day it kind of doesn't matter as Azure is going to be used in enterprises just because they have the legacy MSFT sales force that is tight with managements high up in the org. No wonder MSFT hit $1T. Its such a shame for our industry though. Engineering teams at other cloud providers sweat and toil to get things right for their customers whereas MSFT uses other means to beat them. Hopefully they can at least fix things after they get in. But we know the chance of that happening is slim.
- nojvek 8y ago
  It’s just not Azure. Microsoft has a cultural problem of treating designers as second class citizens. Only some teams get the value of good design and UX.

huzaif 8y ago

I am curious to see your findings (if possible). We are betting big on Azure and have found it to be pretty compatible with our needs. However we may have some blind spots.

huzaif 8y ago
Right on queue, Azure is currently having some pretty massive issues. All our deployments are having issues. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/status/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/status/