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by eddythompson80 59 days ago
Don’t know about catching up to AWS, but given the state of Azure, anyone with enough data center investment should be able to overtake it.
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pjmlp 59 days ago
Azure secret juice are Microsoft shops.

When you are already into some combination of Office, Windows desktops, Active Directory, .NET, SQL Server, Github Copilot, then Azure feels like the natural cloud transition.

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eddythompson80 59 days ago
Azure is exceptionally broken though. It only exists for those who don’t want to put all their eggs in the Amazon basket, and because Microsoft has an old relationship with many large enterprises and is good at selling to them. No body is picking azure based on a technical reason as all services are horrific to use.
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pjmlp 59 days ago
Amazon is hardly anything amazing.

I much rather deal with Azure than the complexity maze of AWS products, IAM configurations, primitive Web based IDE tooling and shell.

Amazon would never had come up with something like VSCode, which was born as the Azure Web IDE.

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jojobas 59 days ago
Office, Windows and SQL server get some hate now and then but are nowhere near as buggy as Azure.
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pjmlp 59 days ago
All cloud vendors are buggy, and if you aren't paying enough there are only bots to talk to.
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jojobas 59 days ago
It would appear that GCP and aws are in a different league of bugginess compared to Azure.

Azure seems to be relying on constant human intervention, the other 2 didn't get a special mention from Pentagon. There was a recent insider article cycle on just how broken and misguided the whole Azure department is.

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pjmlp 58 days ago
Yes, GCP is really bad, I would not use it ever again, if given the option.

Just like every Google service only bots, and the most expensive to actually get humans to talk to.

AWS, it is a maze of products, IAM a pain to deal with, tooling for doing serverless directly from Webshell relatively painfull,....

I bet insider articles from AWS and GCP would be quite similar in quality, especially given how much they do in offshoring.

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TitaRusell 59 days ago
If you want cheap that's what you get. Service costs money.

Like how my local supermarket prefers hiring teenagers.

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pjmlp 59 days ago
Depending on your wallet size, all cloud services are great,
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