I think it's because we aren't a large corporation in terms of headcount.
In any case, that meeting ensured that no further consideration of Azure would take place, and it's very unlikely that it would be considered in the future.
I think it's because we aren't a large corporation in terms of headcount.
In any case, that meeting ensured that no further consideration of Azure would take place, and it's very unlikely that it would be considered in the future.
As in the article, if you already run Windows servers at scale, going to AWS is possible but won't be your first choice. Microsoft sales people being condescending will basically reflect that situation.
In most other situation I can think of you'll go to Azure only if you can't use the alternatives, so again you're basically at their mercy.
To digress, if you run linux servers with an open source stack, going to Azure will bring you virtually nothing, and will probably be an expensive PITA at every step. In a previous ruby shop we had more empathic dev evangelists walk us through Azure, but we felt like wasting their time as it clearly wasn't a priority to them. Then looking at the price we'd need to drop them as soon the discount prices expire, so it was just a losing proposition for everyone involved. I totally understand how more sales focused employees would weed out shops like us and go look for those who have to stick with them anyway.
My company does that. We have started moving new things to the cloud, but we took one look at the Windows pricing in the cloud and ran away. And my company is DEEP in Windows.
So I’m not sure Azure really has much of a leg up there. I think the only real benefit they have is their hybrid cloud for people who do use Windows in the cloud as well.
"Dear Google Cloud: Your Deprecation Policy is Killing You": https://steve-yegge.medium.com/dear-google-cloud-your-deprec...
That said, the k8s version deprecation policies, mixed with significant changes in cluster setup from times to times you have to keep up with is peculiar. I kind of think this is something we accept when going into k8s, but I'd understand people not at ease with that philosophy.
This thread is nightmarish for someone looking to deploy a SaaS with three 9s