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The point is PR. Never trust a status page if it's not directly connected to the monitoring system.
They never attach it to the monitoring because monitoring systems usually generate a lot of false positives which affect their published SLA.
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Ive used gcp and ive been billed like 10% of minimal wage for setting GCPs demo with like 7 very simple microservices (i dont remember exactly) 4 times and every of them was running like 5 minutes after being deployed and then project was killed Shit is expensive as hell For the same money I could rent some weak linux box for a year Or something decent for a month Edit 10ms https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/micr…
Dude, you blindly ran some random code on a metered cloud service. If somebody gives you keys to a Ferrari, don't blame the manufacturer when you drive it off a cliff at 120 miles/hour...
Ferrari analogy would be something like being billed 100usd for 1min ride
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Nothing is forcing companies to sign an Azure contract with Microsoft, and go with AWS or GCP instead. Perhaps they are just doing something right. But I didn't use Azure myself. I'd be curious to know what's good or bad about it compared to GCP and AWS.
For a development team, here's an example of something good about Azure: Microsoft gives us dev accounts with monthly Azure credits (e.g. $100) and you cannot spend more when those credits run out because there is no credit card etc. behind that account to charge the excess. Azure just like other cloud services (I've used AWS but as I understand it GCP is the same) doesn't believe in timely billing. You can and will…
First analogy I thought of were stories about drug dealers giving away free samples to schoolchildren to hook them up before asking for money.
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Ive used gcp and ive been billed like 10% of minimal wage for setting GCPs demo with like 7 very simple microservices (i dont remember exactly) 4 times and every of them was running like 5 minutes after being deployed and then project was killed Shit is expensive as hell For the same money I could rent some weak linux box for a year Or something decent for a month Edit 10ms https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/micr…
what you show there should cost like 300/month to run. Its very transparent pricing, its just bad that the tutorial doesn't mention that. You do realize what you setup in that tutorial right? A kubernetes cluster with 11 full scale microservices that are dimensioned so they can serve the average medium size business. For only a hobby this is huuuuuuugely overdimensioned. If you were to do the same on azure, it would…
Ive ran it for 4 times miltiplied by 5minutes + time needed for it to wake up
All im saying is that it is expensive for such a small usage
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Curious to hear about the specifics...
Persistent problems between Azure VMs and virtual disks causing unexpected reboots. Complete outages. And don't even start me on ACI (for Windows). It doesn't even work. In 7 years we had one AWS AZ outage and we didn't even notice because our monitoring platform in there couldn't reach the network (learned something!). But nothing broke. Even the us-east-1 outages didn't affect us.
We had to switch everything to SSD to get reliability comparable to on-prem VMware.
Azure is the most developer hostile cloud environment. I have zero sympathy for people being affected by this because if you voluntarily use Azure then this is what you deserve. Sorry for being so miserable, but Azure has given me soooo much grief over the last 10 years that I'm just completely done with this shitshow of a platform.
I quite like Microsoft/Azure from a development perspective. If you're running .NET, Application Insights alone is nearly enough to put it above the competition. I appreciate how it integrates with AZD/Teams and the platform as a whole felt much more cohesive than AWS. The monthly $60-$100 developer credit was fantastic as well. It avoided the usual fighting for approval/budget to test things out.
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Persistent problems between Azure VMs and virtual disks causing unexpected reboots. Complete outages. And don't even start me on ACI (for Windows). It doesn't even work. In 7 years we had one AWS AZ outage and we didn't even notice because our monitoring platform in there couldn't reach the network (learned something!). But nothing broke. Even the us-east-1 outages didn't affect us.
Were you using Standard HDD disks? They have a really poor SLA, and are only usable for things like stateless VM Scale Sets or otherwise redundant services. We had to switch everything to SSD to get reliability comparable to on-prem VMware.
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I quite like Microsoft/Azure from a development perspective. If you're running .NET, Application Insights alone is nearly enough to put it above the competition. I appreciate how it integrates with AZD/Teams and the platform as a whole felt much more cohesive than AWS. The monthly $60-$100 developer credit was fantastic as well. It avoided the usual fighting for approval/budget to test things out.
Application insights is amazing - I didn't realise how amazing until I had to try and achieve the same thing in the JavaScript/Node ecosystem.