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Having used their Linux offerings in 2012 - the only thing that I can say is whilst Azure does provide good performance for the price. You lose out on stability
by omarqureshi 13y ago
Having used their Linux offerings in 2012 - the only thing that I can say is whilst Azure does provide good performance for the price. You lose out on stability, sanity and on choice.
I know the cloud is supposed to be a place where the servers are volatile ... BUT ... random reboots with non-writeable disks when they come back as well as network connectivity problems between servers are not something that I've experienced at Rackspace or AWS.
The support at Azure is pretty laughable ("what's a public key?" from one of their so-called TCP/IP experts) if you manage to get a phone call with the folks over at Redmond. Otherwise all you have is forum support where you are basically treated like an idiot and blamed for their mistakes unless you can prove otherwise.
The Windows offering is a little better, more stable for sure - but, then you run into crazy firewall issues if you are using something like AzureRunMe to do the work and set-up bespoke web app servers.
For what i spent the best part of a month failing at getting set up at Azure, took me a few days to set up at Rackspace, with configuration management and service monitoring.
I wont be rushing back to use Azure again any time soon and be warned that this benchmark is only a small glimpse at what is otherwise a mighty shit sandwich.
- tstrimple 13y agoTo be fair, Azure IaaS was in preview in 2012. It didn't become generally available until April of this year. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazure/archive/2013/04/16/the-power-of-and.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazure/archive/2013/04/16/the-...
- omarqureshi 13y agototally aware of that, that doesn't discount from what was in my opinion truly terrible customer service and knowledge of their own products by the engineers. it left me with a really bad taste in my mouth.
- shaydoc 13y agoI can't comment on linux but I've had no issues with Azure using windows, in fact I would say its fantastic. I been have using cloud services web/worker roles, messaging, blob and SQL azure too... I have been also integrating cloud TFS publishing, and automated deployments. Its been a dream so far. I am looking at the elastic scalability block also for scaling out and in, it all looks great. I mean transitioning from staging to production is just a virtual IP swap, sweet... So if you get your setup right and go with the Microsoft cloud setup I think its smooth sailing.
- ilija 13y agoNo offense here, but how can you judge on Azure utilizing a project, that is not even an officially supported Microsoft product? There are other ways to deploy JBoss or Ruby on Rails on Azure. Give Google a try :) I am using Azure for over a year now, without running into serious issues that could not be solved with Stack Overflow or similar sources. Never had to use the official support. Azure performance is great and solution development is backed by a great set of tools. That's my personal experience.