<story><title>Microsoft Azure data deleted because of DNS outage</title><url>https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2019/02/01/dns-outage-turns-tables-on-azure-database-users/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lenticular</author><text>I just don&amp;#x27;t hear any good things about Azure. That is unfortunate, because I&amp;#x27;d love AWS to have some competition.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>outworlder</author><text>&amp;gt;  I just don&amp;#x27;t hear any good things about Azure. That is unfortunate, because I&amp;#x27;d love AWS to have some competition.&lt;p&gt;Google Cloud is fair competition – provided they have the service you need. AWS and Azure both beat them in number of services. If Google has it, then it should behave as expected, and some are downright impressive (GKE and VM auto migration on GCE).&lt;p&gt;Azure is... infuriating. Inconsistent, unreliable APIs, surprising behavior everywhere (attach an internal load balancer, lose internet connectivity!?), lots of restrictions on which features can be used with which SKUs.&lt;p&gt;I see improvements and it is difficult to beat them in the enterprise, but speaking as an engineer, man Azure is infuriating.</text></comment>
<story><title>Microsoft Azure data deleted because of DNS outage</title><url>https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2019/02/01/dns-outage-turns-tables-on-azure-database-users/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lenticular</author><text>I just don&amp;#x27;t hear any good things about Azure. That is unfortunate, because I&amp;#x27;d love AWS to have some competition.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TheIronYuppie</author><text>Disclosure: I work at Azure.&lt;p&gt;We&amp;#x27;re doing our best, but we&amp;#x27;re not going to suggest there&amp;#x27;s not more to do. Every major cloud provider has had issues at one point or another (I formerly worked at Amazon and Google), and I&amp;#x27;ll just say - we hear you, and we are fiercely committed to earning your trust.</text></comment>