[hbcondo714]

This was released by AWS in 2018 with a lot of discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18546272

In contrast, Azure's orbital data is in "preview" in 2021 with little discussion:

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=azure+orbital

[naikrovek]

yeah unfortunately this site has a lot of AWS fans and relatively few Azure fans.

it is fashionable to dislike Microsoft and has been for most of Microsoft's life.

[ShamelessC]

Bit unprovoked wouldn't you say?

I don't see a lot of "fans" of specific cloud services. They are each flawed in different ways.

Microsoft gets bashed in the context of open source. In the context of running a cloud, I've only ever seen them praised for actually hiring customer support staff.

[lumost]

It’s a hangover from the baller era. Many devs and systems folks with more than 10 yoe likely had a negative experience with a proprietary licensed Microsoft enterprise product which required RDP to administer.

[naikrovek]

> Bit unprovoked wouldn't you say?

did I say something inflammatory? AWS gets a lot of attention on this site, and Azure doesn't.

I mean I haven't measured it, but it isn't a leap at all to have this position.

[mst]

I think that's primarily because the HN commentariat tends to be working on projects that are cloud-native which tends to skew heavily towards AWS and GCP, whereas Azure's primary customer base is enterprises doing cloudification work.

I mean, sure, there's a bunch of inveterate microsoft haters on here (with varying levels of quality of reasoning for their hate), but I don't think their existence is the main driver of the lack of commenters using Azure.