Ask HN: Azure customers, why do you host with Azure over AWS or GCP? Additionally:
- What OS do you run?
- Do you have a meaningful server-less component of infrastructure?
- Do you containerize your hosted services?
- How big is your company (& does the company host exclusively one provider or give flexibility?) Context: don't work for any of the Cloud Providers. mostly curious as an AWS cloud customer. |
Replaced all the legacy services with Azure alternatives. For example, IIS Web Servers now run in containers. F5 has been replaced with CloudFlare/Front Door. File servers replaced with NetApp. SQL instance replaced with SQL MI. Jumpboxes replaced with Azure Bastion.
40,000+ employees. All the vendors are used. Multiple on premise data centers as well, looking to migrate.
AWS is on its way down, when was the last time they came out with something exciting? All I've seen recently are high profile exits and some attempts at products in the leading emerging markets in tech that have not seen good reviews.
1. AWS is still vastly more popular and with way more market adoption than another other provider (by a massive margin)
2. Who cares about exciting? I want stability, with decent support, huge community and great tooling.
I think it's a case of YMMV. GCP works for some, likewise with Azure. AWS is just a good workhorse and a solid choice for just about any system.
Although I've always found it weird we have this 'us vs them' mentality with the cloud provider we end up choosing.
AWS has offered a superset of services beyond what I or colleagues have ever been able to apply.
I'm still a little confused. What's not serious or popular coming out of Amazon? What's the different in Microsoft and GCP?
Visual Studio Code, WSL, .Net on Linux, Hololens 2, MRTK, a number of interesting ML tools and research.
Amazon... do you know of any examples?
Largely GOOG and MSFT are giving back through research and open source while AMZN is rarely seen doing this and with little fanfare