<story><title>Errors from Microsoft&apos;s Cloud</title><url>https://errorsazurethrows.tumblr.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>MichaelGG</author><text>I know multiple customers with significant free Azure credit that prefer to pay for Google Cloud or AWS over using Azure for anything critical.&lt;p&gt;The management system is a mess - the new portal is nutty and slow. The old one lacks key features and operations are still slow. I can&amp;#x27;t understate how frustrating and time consuming this is. Maybe I&amp;#x27;m using it wrong, but whatever. Using GCP is a blast of fresh air - light, fast, straightforward.&lt;p&gt;VMs are way overpriced and have poor performance. Windows boxes not-so-infrequently get stuck during reboot, and we were told to resize them to get them going again. &amp;quot;Premium&amp;quot; storage aka SSDs have a terrible design. The temp disk system is nonsensical. It just goes on and on.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s obvious Azure is a great play for MS. They need to convert their enterprise customers that were spending tons on MS before to spending tons on MS online. And I&amp;#x27;m sure they&amp;#x27;ll do fine there (recent earnings confirm?).</text></comment>
<story><title>Errors from Microsoft&apos;s Cloud</title><url>https://errorsazurethrows.tumblr.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jsingleton</author><text>There &lt;i&gt;are&lt;/i&gt; a few issues, but to be fair I&amp;#x27;ve encountered similar things in all the cloud and VPS hosting services I&amp;#x27;ve used. However, I do remember that I was once trying to push Azure as a solution and they promptly had an outage. We went with AWS instead. It&amp;#x27;s not that AWS don&amp;#x27;t have outages, they do, just that the timing was really bad.&lt;p&gt;Also, don&amp;#x27;t use the preview services in Azure apart from to try them out. They really are previews.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve recently written a three part series of blog posts on AWS vs Azure. The third part, on pricing, is out today.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;unop.uk&amp;#x2F;on-aws-vs-azure-vendor-lock-in-and-pricing-confusion-part-3&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;unop.uk&amp;#x2F;on-aws-vs-azure-vendor-lock-in-and-pricing-c...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Edit: One plus of Azure (at least for me) is that it runs on renewable energy. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.microsoft.com&amp;#x2F;about&amp;#x2F;csr&amp;#x2F;environment&amp;#x2F;renewable_energy&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.microsoft.com&amp;#x2F;about&amp;#x2F;csr&amp;#x2F;environment&amp;#x2F;renewable_en...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>