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Is this a joke comment?

• andrewstuart 4y ago
  No, this is my actual experience using azure.
  • gtirloni 4y ago
    I can go on Azure right now and create an instance and nobody will check anything manually and email me back something. Maybe you're confusing Azure with some other small town colocation provider.
    • andrewstuart 4y ago
      Nope, I went through this process exchanging more than 30 emails trying to get the instances I wanted.
    • tsimionescu 4y ago
      If you want 1 instance, you're right. If you want 10 - 20 instances of one type in a region, the other poster's experience matches my own: you have to open a support request to ask for a quota increase, and that is not an automated process.
    • wstuartcl 4y ago
      "an instance" lol
    • deathanatos 4y ago
      Accounts have instance count quotas; you can get them raised, but it is a support ticket to do so. And sometimes, that is hard. I've had Azure support not able to understand what quota they need to raise / what quota is being requested. I had to at least link them to their own documentation on it… (partly the confusion is that quota support tickets allow selecting the quota as a piece of metadata on the ticket, but only for some quotas, and of course, mine was for one of the ones not listed. Why they don't just list all of them is anyone's guess.)
• selckin 4y ago
  no, they have very low quotas by default, and you have to request increases through the portal, which then get rejected and you click the button to contact support/email and then you sometimes have to negotiate with them you have to do this for every single instance type they have, can't even experiment or test other instance types cause its too much trouble to get quota
  • gtirloni 4y ago
    The comment I replied to was not talking about changing quotas but actually creating instances. > Yes it’s weird that you have to ask them for instances which some actual physical person looks at your request, thinks about it and says yes or no to.
    • selckin 4y ago
      well can't create an instance without having quota available and low quota is low, like 10 cpu, so start a 2 node k8s cluster with 8cpu each? nope, go request quota increase
  • andrewstuart 4y ago
    In the future it will be possible to use computers to figure out what’s available and automatically give it to customers. 21st century man…. it’s coming.
    • salawat 4y ago
      But who will determine when more computers are needed to figure out what's available to give to more customers because there's been a spike in demand? Computers don't fix everything. They just allow you to f*ck up bigger, harder, and faster, usually in the most banal way imaginable.
• oneplane 4y ago
  No, Microsoft still isn't up to the 'use what you want, pay for your usage' level that other companies tend to be. They even still mix "licensing" with "usage" so you have to pay for something to then be allowed to pay for using it...