Microsoft Azure

“It makes the most sense for .NET developers, but I'd personally prefer to just rent dedicated servers at this point.”

“AWS/GCP/Azure are full of landmines and extremely easy to misconfigure in insecure ways”

“The callback you're redirecting the user to at the end of that flow is forgeable if an attacker knows an azure tenant ID of a different customer”

“I personally feel the web UI is terrible. I like that the APIs follow consistent rules and seem to follow good practices across the board.”

“Or just use Azure, AWS, etc. for Claude/ChatGPT inference, where the AI labs never even get your data in their data centers at all.”

“tool call failure rate is so high (5%) for the OpenAI provider than Azure (0.2-0.5%)”

“We chose Azure for our startup because of data location, and it was cheaper than the other two as well.”

“10 redirects to get to the portal, when creating an account/etc. if you do one thing wrong it might just disappear from a tenant or not bind properly”

“the integration of Win11 and O365/Azure seems to be headed in the right direction but the execution is a total mess”

“large companies (and startups) are happy to pay a premium for the support, reputation, and reliability”

“we run our AI assistant with models from Azure, which works fine! (Although the models aren't always released with EU data residency)”

“For basic "Create a VM, attach disks and networking, and use it as a computer." tasks, it is my professional experience that Azure is the worst of the Big Three US "cloud" providers by far.”

“I've never had trouble getting capacity older than bleeding edge in eastus2 and centralus regions”

“the CTO of a $1b company wold absolutely not fire someone for going Azure because at those scale it's very likely they have a set of customers that exclusively want to work on Azure”

“they know how to support businesses - small or large. better support if you're enterprise.”

“It’s the enterprise cloud with enterprise support. They won’t randomly pull the plug on your account”

“AWS had roles forever, fully supported from web console or CLI. But when I request Azure service account, I am handed username and password.”

“One thing Azure offers that other clouds don't is so many customers already in it consuming other Microsoft products.”

“public sector projects starting out with loads of Azure services and >$3000 montly bills for applications that could've easily run on a single VM”

“Then you get to implementation and realize its a buggy mess that barely does what you wanted to do in the first place, with ton of caveats.”

“the other providers have their own strengths and standout features, but if you have to approach every single one of their features with suspicion”

“That's true for Azure, where contracts are signed due to free credits given over Office and Windows usage.”

“Put me through a never-ending loop of asking for a Government of India issued document that was already submitted. Human support was non-existent.”

“There are certainly problems in Azure, but it's huge and rough edges are to be expected. It mostly marches on.”

“The business is 365 (which runs on Macs and is worlds better than Apple's office suite + Apple's hosted email is god awful) and Azure.”

“The Azure pricing is at least as complex as AWS/GCP, plus the pricing tool seems worse.”

“the places where the big public cloud providers shine is the PaaS offerings that you don't need to write yourself”

“The big 3 are costing you as if it's still 2009, and they don't change this because people have an irrational attachment to overpaying.”

“They make their money from services, like Azure and whatever they are calling their web-based Office this week.”

“Azure is built on Hyper-V and ODSP/EXO/Dynamics on Windows Server and makes gobs of money for Microsoft”

“going all-in on Microsoft Office 365 and Azure for your IT infra so you can focus on the product”

“Cloud Compute, and VDI as experiences that are just that much easier using Azure and 365 than other providers”

“Microsoft are better (not perfect, but better) than AWS or Google's thing at actually turning stuff off”

“Their developers use Visual Studio, deploy to Azure, and run it all against SQL Server.”

“By going through that entire process, I now have a very compelling argument to go to the client with to recommend we switch vendors entirely.”

“If Microsoft's solution to a simple billing issue is, 'Create a new account and start over,' then what happens the first time we have a simple issue in our production application?”

“I have a lot of faith in it being able to drive enterprise workloads while staying compliant with whatever regulations exist under the sun”

“they tend to be as stable as any other cloud provider and I haven't had many issues with Azure itself”

“Everything I've hosted in Azure has been perfectly available pretty much all the time”

“I also had the same thing when testing Azure personally so I made sure to recommend against using them at every single company I've been at.”