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Azure has been magnitudes more expensive and magnitudes more unreliable for the one of our clients that demands we use it to host their stuff than either AWS, D

Azure has been magnitudes more expensive and magnitudes more unreliable for the one of our clients that demands we use it to host their stuff than either AWS, Digital Ocean, or Heroku. Honestly, I can't think of a single reason why I would recommend them over anyone else at this point, no matter what your hosting or storage or computing needs were. Can't see a single area where they are better than the competition.

partiallypro 7y ago
Magnitudes more expensive? Huh? On what product? We used to use AWS and had issues a lot. I've seen global GCS outrages. Today we were effected be the Azure outage, but only for about 15 minutes.
- llamataboot 7y ago
  I should clarify to say, for my current use cases I have found I get charged for way more resources than I would expect to be and Azure's billing breakdowns are so useless and difficult to parse that I can't figure out where the extra charges are coming from :D But could be a PEBCAK error. In any case, I think you are right that apples-to-apples for most things they generally shake out the same in theory.
GauntletWizard 7y ago
I completely agree. I ran a 100+ node compute cluster a couple years back, and the uptime of our nodes was three nines at most. This wouldn't have been bad if they had had any form of reliable storage or quick recovery, but at the time their s3 competitor was limited to 20t per bucket (because it was just NetApp hardware). Azure is a freaking mess. If it hadn't been Microsoft we were selling to, we'd have never used it.
dsyko 7y ago
Azure does have the only HIPAA compliant media transcoding service (as far as I know). The API is terrible but it works.
- cobookman 7y ago
  Might I ask the use case. Didn't even realize that HIPAA compliant transcoding was a thing
  - ailideex 7y ago
    I am guessing more than compliant it is just some corporate captive market thing where there is only one "compliant" transcoder
- fivefiveinshoes 7y ago
  For what it’s worth AWS’s MediaConvert is HIPAA compliant. Have one client whose been using it with that in mind. https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/hipaa-eligible-services-reference/ https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/hipaa-eligible-services-re...

partiallypro 7y ago

Magnitudes more expensive? Huh? On what product? We used to use AWS and had issues a lot. I've seen global GCS outrages. Today we were effected be the Azure outage, but only for about 15 minutes.

llamataboot 7y ago
I should clarify to say, for my current use cases I have found I get charged for way more resources than I would expect to be and Azure's billing breakdowns are so useless and difficult to parse that I can't figure out where the extra charges are coming from :D But could be a PEBCAK error. In any case, I think you are right that apples-to-apples for most things they generally shake out the same in theory.

GauntletWizard 7y ago

I completely agree. I ran a 100+ node compute cluster a couple years back, and the uptime of our nodes was three nines at most. This wouldn't have been bad if they had had any form of reliable storage or quick recovery, but at the time their s3 competitor was limited to 20t per bucket (because it was just NetApp hardware). Azure is a freaking mess. If it hadn't been Microsoft we were selling to, we'd have never used it.

dsyko 7y ago

Azure does have the only HIPAA compliant media transcoding service (as far as I know). The API is terrible but it works.

cobookman 7y ago
Might I ask the use case. Didn't even realize that HIPAA compliant transcoding was a thing
- ailideex 7y ago
  I am guessing more than compliant it is just some corporate captive market thing where there is only one "compliant" transcoder
fivefiveinshoes 7y ago
For what it’s worth AWS’s MediaConvert is HIPAA compliant. Have one client whose been using it with that in mind. https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/hipaa-eligible-services-reference/ https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/hipaa-eligible-services-re...