HACKER Q&A
📣 emeerson

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.

  👤 shyn3 Accepted Answer ✓
With AWS you have to buy a new SQL Server license, with Azure you can carry it with you.

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.

👤 verdverm
I use GCP because it is the best. I believe a lot of people using Azure and GCloud because it ties in with their emails and office systems. It's the same user and auth systems.

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.