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Azure is bad. Google is the one that's going to leverage AI to catch up with AWS, GCP is actually good and they've already partnered with Huggingface.

bruce511 2y ago
Features aside, I simply don't trust Google to keep GCP running in the long term. Their propensity to kill projects (even ones which are successful), plus their gratuitous price hikes (aka Google Maps) has made me Goggle negative. Sure, they might run GCP forever. Sure they may offer some sort of customer service at some point. Sure they may decide to keep pricing at sane levels. The key work in all that is "might" - and that requires my _trust_. And for better, or worse, my trust simply isn't there.
- CuriouslyC 2y ago
  I 100% feel you on the google trust. I think it'll end up being central to a lot of their other efforts so I'm expecting it to stick around, but hybrid cloud solutions are just a smart bet anyhow.
- magicalhippo 2y ago
  For us Google wasn't even on the table, due to what you mentioned. It was AWS or Azure. AWS didn't have a data center in our country and our customers are required by law to keep their data in the country, so easy win for Azure.
yesdocs 2y ago
Why is azure ‘bad’? Is it because you dislike Microsoft? In my experience Azure is really good and getting better. Even if AWS is more popular, Azure is gaining traction, is more intuitive and easier to use, and in my experience: cheaper
- CuriouslyC 2y ago
  they've had long running security issues and performance edge cases that make relying on them a bit of a time bomb.
- Hikikomori 2y ago
  Had to do multi cloud with Azure, worked on network infrastructure, vnet, peering, firewall, vpn gateway, etc. Documentation was almost worthless, leaving a lot of room for interpretation. Encountered and filed more bugs trying to get it up and running than I did for years of using Aws. Support was mediocre. Non existent ipv6 support. This was a few years ago and in comparison to Aws.
bongodongobob 2y ago
You realize that Azure is much more than compute right?
- yesdocs 2y ago
  Of course, and why is azure ‘bad’?
  - bongodongobob 2y ago
    It's not, it great if you have a large org.

bruce511 2y ago

Features aside, I simply don't trust Google to keep GCP running in the long term. Their propensity to kill projects (even ones which are successful), plus their gratuitous price hikes (aka Google Maps) has made me Goggle negative. Sure, they might run GCP forever. Sure they may offer some sort of customer service at some point. Sure they may decide to keep pricing at sane levels. The key work in all that is "might" - and that requires my _trust_. And for better, or worse, my trust simply isn't there.

CuriouslyC 2y ago
I 100% feel you on the google trust. I think it'll end up being central to a lot of their other efforts so I'm expecting it to stick around, but hybrid cloud solutions are just a smart bet anyhow.
magicalhippo 2y ago
For us Google wasn't even on the table, due to what you mentioned. It was AWS or Azure. AWS didn't have a data center in our country and our customers are required by law to keep their data in the country, so easy win for Azure.

yesdocs 2y ago

Why is azure ‘bad’? Is it because you dislike Microsoft? In my experience Azure is really good and getting better. Even if AWS is more popular, Azure is gaining traction, is more intuitive and easier to use, and in my experience: cheaper

CuriouslyC 2y ago
they've had long running security issues and performance edge cases that make relying on them a bit of a time bomb.
Hikikomori 2y ago
Had to do multi cloud with Azure, worked on network infrastructure, vnet, peering, firewall, vpn gateway, etc. Documentation was almost worthless, leaving a lot of room for interpretation. Encountered and filed more bugs trying to get it up and running than I did for years of using Aws. Support was mediocre. Non existent ipv6 support. This was a few years ago and in comparison to Aws.

bongodongobob 2y ago

You realize that Azure is much more than compute right?

yesdocs 2y ago
Of course, and why is azure ‘bad’?
- bongodongobob 2y ago
  It's not, it great if you have a large org.