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 t

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.