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[yannick]

Like clouds in real life they are pretty to watch from a distance, but actually quite annoying if you are inside them.

[Beastintheomlet]

RE: Azure Growth, you have to realize that every enterprise level company in every sector except Tech uses Windows. And user permissions in Active Directory carrying over to your cloud infra is a huge win.

[georgehelyar]

I use azure at work, it's fine. It's basically the same as AWS but with better naming for its services. EC2 = Virtual Machines, S3 = Storage etc. When people describe their AWS architecture and it's like we connect the floopidy floop to the thingamybob I just can't help thinking why would Amazon do this?

[griof]

You should take into account, most businesses in Europe use Microsoft. Their market share is just huge. Everything starts with the OS and office suite. Then they give introduce you into Azure via easy excel integration

[LusidDreaming]

The lab I worked for in school got a $25k grant from AWS. We burned through it in less than a year using their recommended architecture, and then were stuck trying to figure out why we had a $3k/mo bill for an application that had at most 1, 000 concurrent users at any moment.

[cosmic_jon]

Azure runs the corporate side of almost all large companies -- i.e. Active Directory and SSO app registrations. AWS is more for web infrastructure.

[TomNook.]

DHH has been talking about this for ages, but I remember Theo slating this view.

In general, if you are a startup and/or don't have the expertise to handle onsite servers (and all the maintenance, tools and processes that come with it), then go cloud. For scenarios where demand is relatively stable and predictable, and your staff are well equipped in server knowledge, go onsite metal.

[ironized]

Azure gets enterprise cloud migrations because of the easy integration with their networks/AD/Entra and office products.

[ShadowKestrel]

"how did google fumble the bag so hard" applies to all their products at this point, even the search engine is falling behind motherheccin bing

[asherrfacee]

Azure’s customers not just government and medical, it’s actually very even. Most Fortune 500 companies use Azure.

Azure was the first of the two to create a “hybrid cloud” service that mixes on-premise with cloud services and most agree Azure’s hybrid service is better supported than AWS’s.

A lot of companies already used windows servers or the Microsoft stack on-prem, so for them it’s a no brainer to migrate to Azure.

But to your average company, AWS and Azure are the same and any service offered in one is available in the other, so most people just use what they’re familiar with. I think Azure’s services have sensible names unlike AWS, so if you’re looking for something in Azure it’s easy to find.

[wywarren]

AWS Activate credits are often dished out in increments of 10-25k up to that cap, you're also required to burn it within two years I think. So they're gaming the FOMO of the credits to get your burn rate up before you start paying.

[ericng]

there was a point where i lived in the aws gui for a month, got unaddicted real quick

[Emil_]

To the point of Azure:
I work at a giant corporation and we're almost completely exclusive with Microsoft (using Azure, Teams, etc), so I guess there are some contracts that MS does with giant corps

[prgnify]

I'll keep hammering that it is crazy Slack eve exists at all. But it is crazy Prime is somehow excited about DHH Campfire stuff when ZULIP IS LITERALLY FOSS

[ninjaasmoke]

Only Prime can make a 5 minute video a 25 minute video

[sploders]

I have a theory that Amazon intentionally makes their AWS UI that difficult so you have to get certified to use it and then fall prey to the “sunk cost fallacy”

[RemizZ]

Don't forget Azure hosts Office and therefore Teams, which everybody now has to use because it comes with Office... plus iirc, they're the only one with an option to keep data on EU servers only, which is huge for GDPR

[ElvenSpellmaker]

I'm a Platform Engineering Consultant in the UK and our split is at least 70% Azure 30% AWS and very little GCP (I've been on one GCP discovery the whole time I've been here [over 4 years]).

[salvatoreshiggerino]

Non-technical managers are living and breathing Microsoft Office products. That gives huge brand recognition benefits to Azure, right right where it matters the most. That’s probably why it’s the fastest growing cloud provider.

[arimill]

Businesses already have an Azure Tenant just to handle users et al., in the enterprise space. Migrating to azure was just easier for them.