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Two hundred reasons to not use Azure

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Re: Two hundred reasons to not use Azure

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I am still miffed that they renamed Azure AD to Entra ID. Definitely not a needless and confusing change.

The reason for this I heard by Microsoft was to stop having to explain to non technical people that Azure AD doesn't have feature parity with a real Active Directory.

Re: Two hundred reasons to not use Azure

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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 pr…

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

This is why SharePoint got installed in so many gov/large enterprise in the past, and I have to assume why Azure has any kind of market share today. If it wasn’t a golf course, it was after being wined and dined in Vegas, at least it was when I was last working in government..

Re: Two hundred reasons to not use Azure

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My favourite Azureisms:

Begging and pleading for spot quota, being repeatedly told it's unavailable because the region is full, while the spot price is at the minimum and has been for months

Having quota silently removed because we weren't using it for two weeks, then having to resume begging for months to get it back.

Flat out refusal to let me pay by card on a new subscription - bank transfer only - on the same account as other subscriptions paying 10k/mo bills by card.

Re: Two hundred reasons to not use Azure

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Concur with #200. My number 1 issue with all of Microsoft's cloud offerings, especially Power Platform, is how difficult they make it for developers to get things done in large organizations. Every tutorial and piece of documentation seems to assume you are an administrator in your tenant, and if you aren't, good luck figuring out who administers the particular combination of functionality you're fighting today. Note…

Meanwhile it seems everything in Microsoft 365 defaults to "anyone internal can access/use the resource." As a result, I've seen large organizations leaking some of their most sensitive information to regular users.

Re: Two hundred reasons to not use Azure

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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.

About the terraform part, I am not sure about how it works for Azure, but GCP providers are developed /maintained by Googlers. Assuming it's the same, terraform problems are actually Azure problems (IMHO). Disclaimer: Googler but working nowhere close to Google's Terraform efforts.

I don't believe that's the case here. The Azure RP AFAIK is maintained by Terraform folks. Possibly there's a few MSFT contributors.

Re: Two hundred reasons to not use Azure

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post #20

The UX, latency and API design consistency were absolutely terrible when I was forced to use Azure

Inconsistent API design is the hallmark of growth by acquisition

> Inconsistent API design is the hallmark of growth by acquisition

I don't doubt the rule but in MS's case it's commonly about constant warring between the interdepartment fiefdoms.

Re: Two hundred reasons to not use Azure

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post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 pr…

> The main reason to go to Azure is because your bosses' boss was convinced to buy it at a golf course. This is why SharePoint got installed in so many gov/large enterprise in the past, and I have to assume why Azure has any kind of market share today. If it wasn’t a golf course, it was after being wined and dined in Vegas, at least it was when I was last working in government..

To this day enterprises are looking for "SharePoint Developers" and everyone they hire hates every mouse click so they outsource further and further. "Azure Developers" are mostly developers from outsourcing centers forcefully trained by the enterprise. Training sponsored by workplace and conducted by Big Four. Here and there some whisper their wonderment why such expensive "cloud training" is needed. That's the IT workforce shortage the companies are talking about.
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