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Most of the responses to this are just preconceptions or assumptions. Azure does have unique offerings, such as higher-spec compute nodes than AWS and RDMA-cap
by jiggawatts 4y ago
Most of the responses to this are just preconceptions or assumptions.
Azure does have unique offerings, such as higher-spec compute nodes than AWS and RDMA-capable “HPC” sizes that can be used to build mini supercomputers.
AFAIK, no other public cloud has this type of capability.
- tester756 4y agoIndeed, it's crazy how people can go out here and claim crazy stuff as if they knew internals of Azure
- jiggawatts 4y ago"I like Linux and Amazon, hence Azure must be bad. I assume, I've never seen it." is something I've heard commonly. I have a customer where they use both clouds, and they will spend weeks spinning up Rube Goldberg machines in AWS even though there is a turnkey solution available in Azure. For example, Elastic File System (EFS) in AWS is only compatible with UNIX-like operating systems, because it is NFS v4. Azure has both NFS and SMB file shares as a service -- the latter is a unique offering. It's not magic, but it does eliminate quite a bit of complexity around managing large, scalable file server clusters for Windows clients if you need that kind of thing.
- berniedurfee 4y agoMicrosoft went into the HPC market aggressively very early as a differentiator to the AWS general computing strategy. Azure has been focused on HPC much longer and has a head start on AWS. Not sure if they knew it would pay off with AI, but it looks like it’ll work out well for them.