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Re: Two hundred reasons to not use Azure

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Post by patchtopic »

I'm still fuming from when Azure cancelled my organisations PowerBI A1 instance account, and refused to explain why. We re-opened the account and got the report working. They cancelled it again.

A scientific reporting project trying PowerBI dead in the water.

I was called from leave, from the beach in Thailand, to try and untangle this mess. I couldn't. I'm the "linux guy" but all the "microsoft people" were at their wits end and didn't know what to do. A colossal kafkaesque maze mess of Microsoft support agents with cheerful "have a nice day and is their anything else we can help you with" emails canning the project, over and over. AND REFUSING TO EXPLAIN WHY.

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Re: Two hundred reasons to not use Azure

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Post by sofixa »

politelemon wrote: post #4

Wouldn't you be able to do a similar list for any given provider, given sufficient motivation and rage? Or do you think Azure is distinct

You would, but as someone who has interacted with all three big cloud providers at some level, and has seen demos using all three, and has colleagues that have had to do work and/or demos with all three... Azure is by far the worst.

Their security is the worst - they have had more than 10 critical security vulnerabilities, most of them cross-tenant, some of them trivial to exploit and should have never gotten into production, just over the past 2-3 years.

Their UX and docs are extremely bad. Not that AWS/GCP are perfect, but at least they're actually usable - the docs can be read and understood, and the UI and API don't take years to answer every single call.

As an anecdote, demos from their own Solutions Architects leave the impression everything is a slow disjointed mess. As another anecdote, I don't know any single Platform/Infra/SRE/DevOps/Cloud person that actually likes Azure, while I know lots of people who evangelise AWS/GCP for various reasons.

The main reason to go to Azure is because your bosses' boss was convinced to buy it at a golf course.

Re: Two hundred reasons to not use Azure

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Post by viraptor »

RajT88 wrote: post #3

There is a lot to complain about on Azure. But a lot of his posts are wrong (he just could not figure it out - a documentation problem likely) or complaining not about Azure, but Terraform.

A documentation problem is an Azure problem. A problem with support is an Azure problem. It's all part of a package.

Re: Two hundred reasons to not use Azure

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Post by exe34 »

patchtopic wrote: post #11

I'm still fuming from when Azure cancelled my organisations PowerBI A1 instance account, and refused to explain why. We re-opened the account and got the report working. They cancelled it again. A scientific reporting project trying PowerBI dead in the water. I was called from leave, from the beach in Thailand, to try and untangle this mess. I couldn't. I'm the "linux guy" but all the "microsoft people" were at their…

They can't have any suspicious activity if there's no activity! taps head meme

Re: Two hundred reasons to not use Azure

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Post by codingdave »

RajT88 wrote: post #3

There is a lot to complain about on Azure. But a lot of his posts are wrong (he just could not figure it out - a documentation problem likely) or complaining not about Azure, but Terraform.

Bad documentation as a root cause is still a bad experience running on the platform, so I'm not sure how that would make the posts wrong.

Re: Two hundred reasons to not use Azure

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Post by chii »

empuxr wrote: post #9
politelemon wrote: post #4

Wouldn't you be able to do a similar list for any given provider, given sufficient motivation and rage? Or do you think Azure is distinct

Certainly. There's the cloud providers everybody hates and the cloud providers nobody uses.

and then there's AWS.
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