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Does anyone who actually uses Azure want to chime in? I admit that I may live in a bubble, but if Azure is going to win, and I have heard almost nothing about i

Does anyone who actually uses Azure want to chime in? I admit that I may live in a bubble, but if Azure is going to win, and I have heard almost nothing about it that gives it the edge over the Heroku/AWS/GAE triumvirate, I would certainly like to know.

krautsourced 14y ago
I haven't used it myself, but I think in the enterprise market it actually is being used quite a bit. I have heard good things from people who used it, but am at a loss at giving you a concrete example. Maybe it's worth giving it a go, just to form an opinion...
- dasil003 14y ago
  Wasn't Apple using it for iCloud? Or was that just a rumor?
  - qntmfred 14y ago
    they were
meaty 14y ago
It's tidier than AWS and GAE, better performing and slightly more expensive. Tooling is good, support is excellent (I can get someone who knows arse from elbow on the phone in 2 minutes flat). Some of it is a little odd, but it makes sense eventually. API is a little clunky though. We have some kit in it (Linux and windows which might sound odd), but it seems to be pretty reliable. Our AD forest root servers are in it and two OpenLDAP roots for clients as is our web site (which is 3rd party PHP). It basically does everything. It's sort of GAE's app model and AWS's server + network model in one. We did have a network/vlan issue but they sorted that on the phone in literally 10 minutes.