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by gjhr
1830 days ago
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I'd agree with them that the portal is terrible. Multiple times a day I get blank page errors, where the page is completely blank except for a single non-sensical error message in black text. However their actual services are also pretty terrible. Pretty much everything takes significantly longer to deploy than the AWS couterpart. There are so many preview and deprecated features that it is often hard to judge exactly what feature set you are getting, this is often compounded by the fact that almost everything has multiple SKUs which also change available features. Azure AD RBAC is a bit of a mess, although its conceptually simpler than AWS IAM policies its just a pain to use in practice, and its often slow for changes in permissions to actually reflect. Azure VM disks are annoying to use too, you can't set the size of the OS drive at creation and extra data disks come unformatted. "Grossly incompetent" is probably an overstep though, Azure is very impressive, just not as impressive as its competitors right now. Having said all that their are a couple places where Azure really shines in my opinion: * Resource groups (GCP has a similar feature) allow you to more easily keep track of related resources across services.
* Price transparency. Many (not all) services tell you up front hourly/monthly costs as you are deploying them through the portal. You don't have to track down a pricing page or calculator yourself.
* Azure functions are amazing when using C#/.Net. A huge amount of the regular boilerplate is abstracted away into simple C# annotations so you can get a large % of business logic. |
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