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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 yo

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.