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by jiggawatts 1497 days ago
Azure App Service also...

It's odd how whenever someone on HN mentions a list of cloud providers, they will list Google, IBM, and even Oracle before Microsoft Azure, which is the #2 biggest provider after Amazon.

It's like when a parent lists their children and just "forgets" their second child.

"Oh, we don't talk about Timmy..."
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sofixa 1497 days ago
To be fair, Azure has a bad reputation among non-"enterprise" folks ( the type of person who swears by IBM, Oracle, Cisco, etc.). I've only experimented with it briefly and it was underwhelming at best, and all of the things I've read and heard about it don't make me want it. Be it general slowness, really poor UI and UX, or terrible security vulnerabilities. No cloud is perfect, but Azure seems to be the least perfect of the big ones.
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TheRealDunkirk 1497 days ago
Totally agree that it's strange. I hate Microsoft MORE than the next guy. I will never get over the company they were in the 90's, and funding the SCO lawsuit against IBM. And I view the warm, fuzzy "Linux-friendly" Microsoft with high-levels of skepticism. That all being said, I have a couple of larg-ish, cross-departmental apps running on Azure infra, and I find their portal to be very good; a mile ahead of futzing around in AWS. (Of course, I understand that AWS was designed to be CLI-friendly first, but I don't need to deploy fleets of similar objects at a time.) So I can't fault Microsoft for Azure. I actually like it. One of my apps is a Rails app (with all the attendant nonsense) and one is the backend of a Windows-native app, and the integration with Visual Studio for deploying services to their cloud really is nice.
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my69thaccount 1497 days ago
> I hate Microsoft MORE than the next guy.

> So I can't fault Microsoft for Azure. I actually like it.

You literally do not hate microsoft more than the next guy

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