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neya ◴[] No.41901576[source]
If you use Azure in any realistic production environments, then it's on you. Even with $100k in free credits, they couldn't convince me to use it for more than a month. It is expensive, the interface is highly user unfriendly and most important of all, their products don't at all seem reliable for production workloads because of stuff like this. Sorry Microsoft, I think you can do much better.
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pier25 ◴[] No.41907485[source]
It's amazing Azure has 2-3x the market share of Google Cloud with a much worse service.

Is this because of corps using dotnet and Microsoft SQL?

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1. stackskipton ◴[] No.41908372[source]
Really, have you used Google Cloud?

Big Enterprises need alot of bells and whistles and for the longest time, Google Cloud didn't have those bells and whistles. For example, App Engine for longest time didn't have internal IP only. It has it's now but whole point, most people have already evaluated their cloud and picked it.

Also, Google used to be or still is terrible at talking to customers. Big Enterprises require people at Google to actually talk to customers, something Google is notoriously terrible at.

Finally, Google Deprecation Policy has done them in. Many CTOs are scared to get into bed with Google due to it: https://steve-yegge.medium.com/dear-google-cloud-your-deprec...

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2. pier25 ◴[] No.41909777[source]
> Really, have you used Google Cloud?

Yes, for years.

Their dashboard is not great but way better than the competition. As for the cloud service itself, it has been reliable in my experience.

> Google used to be or still is terrible at talking to customers

Aren't all clouds like this unless you're a big org?

> Google Deprecation Policy has done them in

I'm sure some people feel this way but I doubt it's the majority.

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3. stackskipton ◴[] No.41910013[source]
I'm ignoring the dashboard because there are people who think Azure Dashboard sucks while I'm pretty used to it and think Subscription -> RG -> Resource is pretty logical but I'm sure others prefer GCP way of organizing.

>Aren't all clouds like this unless you're a big org?

Our spend is only 10k/mth and Microsoft talks to us. They are overworked but it's better than 1 million Spend/mth I had at $TwoJobs ago and getting anyone at GCP to pick up the phone was pulling teeth.