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AWS or Oracle? I'll take my chances with microsoft. Better features & much lower cost.... Azure's light years ahead in MANY areas, if you bother to take a loo

• jiggawatts 5y ago
  I have bothered, and unfortunately the features are more marketing than substance. So many features that ought to be orthogonal, but aren't. Remind me again why I can't have an IPv4 NAT gateway in an IPv6-enabled vNet? Kubernetes is also not the only area where Azure is woefully behind on updates. They haven't even kept up with Microsoft products. For example, they still use the deprecated VHD format, even though VHDX has been a thing for 5 years now.
• toyg 5y ago
  I think big cloud vendors are more or less as bad as each other, for the simple reason that they are all megacorps - where the "enterprise" mindset is made inevitable by the sheer number of employees; that's going to bite, sooner or later. It's mostly a case of figuring out the worst ones (Oracle, IBM...) to reduce the chances of a fuckup - but a certain amount of risk will always be there. If one can, one should probably "go boutique", where the power balance is a bit more favourable to customers and vendors do really care about their products and their reputation.