Re:Google Plots Course to Overtake Cloud Rivals
by GordonS on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @08:16AM
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Personal experience of around 3 years of solid usage, spanning many Azure services, with complex systems running in production for several clients.
> they are 2nd only due to their strong existing connections to enterprise
Those connections sure help, but only really for Microsoft-shops. As I mentioned, if you're already using AD, SMB file servers etc, then it makes a lot of sense since they have 1st-class support for these in the cloud.
Re:Google Plots Course to Overtake Cloud Rivals
by darkcha0s on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @08:09AM
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Personal experience. Or how else do you expect to be proven such a sweeping statement?
Can you link any sources that azure ranks worse in quantitative measures?
Re:Google Plots Course to Overtake Cloud Rivals
by ehsankia on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @12:57PM
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This report has some numbers:
https://cdn2.hubspot.net/hubfs/1753393/guides/Cloud_Report_2...
Especially in networking, Azure is orders of magnitude worse.
Re:Google Plots Course to Overtake Cloud Rivals
by GordonS on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @05:23PM
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Your wording "especially in networking" strongly implies that Azure was worst on several counts, but especially so on networking - but that is not the case, they were only worse on networking.
- On CPU performance, Azure absolutely smashed it! - For storage read and write, Azure came second behind AWS - For TPC-C perf/$ all 4 providers had similar pricing for similar tiers. Note that Cockroach labs say this only takes into account on-demand pricing, so reserved instance pricing may differ
Do you have something to back that up? From almost everything I've heard, and most of the quantitative measures I've seen, they are strictly worse than AWS and GCP. As mentioned above, they are 2nd only due to their strong existing connections to enterprise.