Why are you still using Azure? Do you feel concern for the costs, the complex pricing, confusing interface, the frequent service disruptions, the excessive vendor lock-in, the lack of reliable services and poor quality on the platform, the inconsistent and difficult to navigate documentation, frustration with integration, poor support where everything turns into a sales pitch, and an endless cycle of issues? The following cloud providers could be better options that will save you sleepless nights.
- AWS
- GCP
- Digital Ocean
Why is Azure so Bad?
- Complex Pricing: Pricing model can be intricate and difficult to understand
- Confusing Interface: Portal can be overwhelming with a lack of intuitive navigation
- Service Disruptions: Endless cycle of service outages that impact businesses
- Vendor Lock-in: Tight integration with Microsoft products makes it difficult to migrate and even re-design cloud agnostic or hybrid solutions
- High Costs: More expensive than AWS, Digital Ocean, or GCP across many services
- Integration Challenges: Complexity in integrating with on-premise, open source, and third-party applications
- Terrible Services: Badly designed services across the entire platform that just don't integrate well, very brittle infrastructure that leads to issues in security, orchestration and workflow, poor use of best practices and patterns, the entire platform basically lacks the cloud fundamentals
- Dodgy and Poor Support: The support is very dodgy where everything is a sales pitch to get you to use more of Microsoft products, even their help and documentation have a significant bias, clueless support, support teams are not very practically knowledgeable but act more like sales engineers, leads to an endless cycle of issues, in most cases you will never get your original support query answered but re-directed to a documentation that is likely outdated, inconsistent, or doesn't answer the query, you will never get a straight answer to anything, support teams almost sound horrified when you mention anything to do with Linux
