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Re:What is Microsoft smoking? by obtino on Thursday June 13, 2013 @07:54AM (#5873530)
> I'm not a fan of most of their products, but I've heard good things about Azure, even for Linux hosting.

I have to agree on Azure. It's simply amazing for Linux VM hosting. I urge everyone to try it (whether you like MS or not). The UI for this service is simply amazing!

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Re:What is Microsoft smoking? by riskable on Thursday June 13, 2013 @05:06PM (#5876587)
You actually use the UI? I've been using Rackspace and AWS for a while (years?) now and I can't say I've logged into their web interfaces much at all. Not in months, for sure.

How's their API? Can I whip up (and down) servers and DNS from a Python script in a few minutes? That's what I do with AWS and Rackspace and franky, I won't use a cloud provider that doesn't give me that power. Automation is critical for any use of the cloud these days.

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Re:What is Microsoft smoking? by jmcqk6 on Thursday June 13, 2013 @05:27PM (#5876701)
Their UI is actually just a wrapper around their API, so while I haven't used Azure, I believe the answer to this is yes. Microsoft also publishes Node/javascript bindings to their API.
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