Azure vs AWS
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I've used AWS for a few years at Crate and Barrel and Azure here at my current job. The basic way I describe the differences between the two are that AWS can be a bit more of a low-level experience than Azure. It has a ton of functionality and you can do pretty much anything with either platform, but you will be doing a bit more work out of the box in AWS to get auto-scaling and other services working. I was able to set up Nginx as a reverse proxy and web servers in the backend pool and it worked really well. It was a mix of Linux and Windows. I used virtual machines and auto-scaling groups in AWS whereas in Azure, I did the same thing but with all managed services (App Gateway, Web Apps, Azure SQL). If you are working primarily in .NET, you'll find that the tight integration of all the microsoft products has great support. Linux is supported well too. I'd go with Azure if you are doing development in .NET. Both Azure and AWS seem to have roughly the same availability. I've had outages on both platforms, but they are infrequent.
Thank you. That was quite useful. :thumbsup:
Nish Nishant Consultant Software Architect Ganymede Software Solutions LLC www.ganymedesoftwaresolutions.com
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Also, if you want to play around with it. Amazon will give people like a free year with a low tier instance. They'll want a CC when signing up but won't charge it unless you host something like YT on it and kill their servers... AWS Free Tier[^]
Jeremy Falcon
That would be quite handy - to get a feel for it. Thanks Jeremy.
Nish Nishant Consultant Software Architect Ganymede Software Solutions LLC www.ganymedesoftwaresolutions.com
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That would be quite handy - to get a feel for it. Thanks Jeremy.
Nish Nishant Consultant Software Architect Ganymede Software Solutions LLC www.ganymedesoftwaresolutions.com
You're totally welcome.
Jeremy Falcon
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Anyone here who has used both (either at the same time or at different times)? If so how did the experiences compare?
Nish Nishant Consultant Software Architect Ganymede Software Solutions LLC www.ganymedesoftwaresolutions.com
I've used both (albeit not touched AWS for several years) and found that Azure was much easier to get up and running.
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I've used both (albeit not touched AWS for several years) and found that Azure was much easier to get up and running.
Thank you, that seems to be the common opinion.
Nish Nishant Consultant Software Architect Ganymede Software Solutions LLC www.ganymedesoftwaresolutions.com
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Anyone here who has used both (either at the same time or at different times)? If so how did the experiences compare?
Nish Nishant Consultant Software Architect Ganymede Software Solutions LLC www.ganymedesoftwaresolutions.com
For someone who is working on MS stack, Azure naturally feels so good because all their framework libs are just few clicks away (Nuget, or direct framework downloads). Auzre is a natural partner when you got something to do with Asp.net, SQL Server. And Blobs, Queues , Table Stores all their basic cloud services feels so native too. :thumbsup: AWS does have similar features. We could invoke anything through REST calls if .net libs are not found. But there's alwasy an element of "alieness" , May be it's my MS-centric experience-bias to be blamed. I need to get rid of them :) VMs -I dont know why, but I find AWS EC2 linux (ubuntu) instances a bit faster for Php than the ones in Azure (with similar Config,geo location). I have to look deeper to validate this claim. I wish Azure ultimately does fine too. On both these options, I don't like their billing theory. Azure's billing concepts are a philospohy. :doh:
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy Falcon.
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For someone who is working on MS stack, Azure naturally feels so good because all their framework libs are just few clicks away (Nuget, or direct framework downloads). Auzre is a natural partner when you got something to do with Asp.net, SQL Server. And Blobs, Queues , Table Stores all their basic cloud services feels so native too. :thumbsup: AWS does have similar features. We could invoke anything through REST calls if .net libs are not found. But there's alwasy an element of "alieness" , May be it's my MS-centric experience-bias to be blamed. I need to get rid of them :) VMs -I dont know why, but I find AWS EC2 linux (ubuntu) instances a bit faster for Php than the ones in Azure (with similar Config,geo location). I have to look deeper to validate this claim. I wish Azure ultimately does fine too. On both these options, I don't like their billing theory. Azure's billing concepts are a philospohy. :doh:
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy Falcon.
Thank you. I am not surprised that Azure is easier to setup compared to AWS, especially if you are hitting it from .NET. And I agree, years of Microsoft centric development can put you into a mindset where anything non-Microsoft looks difficult to navigate. It's a psychological block in my opinion than anything else.
Nish Nishant Consultant Software Architect Ganymede Software Solutions LLC www.ganymedesoftwaresolutions.com
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Anyone here who has used both (either at the same time or at different times)? If so how did the experiences compare?
Nish Nishant Consultant Software Architect Ganymede Software Solutions LLC www.ganymedesoftwaresolutions.com
I don't really have experience in either (although I've seen "some" Azure and it looks great). However, what I've been hearing about Azure is that it's really been catching up to AWS in the past two years or so. So if people choose AWS over Azure one or two years ago because it was so much more mature than Azure that might not be true anymore :)
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I don't really have experience in either (although I've seen "some" Azure and it looks great). However, what I've been hearing about Azure is that it's really been catching up to AWS in the past two years or so. So if people choose AWS over Azure one or two years ago because it was so much more mature than Azure that might not be true anymore :)
Best, Sander Continuous Integration, Delivery, and Deployment arrgh.js - Bringing LINQ to JavaScript Object-Oriented Programming in C# Succinctly
Thank you.
Nish Nishant Consultant Software Architect Ganymede Software Solutions LLC www.ganymedesoftwaresolutions.com
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Anyone here who has used both (either at the same time or at different times)? If so how did the experiences compare?
Nish Nishant Consultant Software Architect Ganymede Software Solutions LLC www.ganymedesoftwaresolutions.com
I worked with a Linux person that badmouthed Azure's Linux offering because it took several minutes to spin up a VM. He was working toward "servers as cattle not servers as pets" and wanted to be able to replace the prod environment quickly as soon as a problem was detected. I actually faced a MSFT rep and showed her the difference between spinning up a CentOS machine on Azure [~2 minutes] vs. Digital Ocean (I think) [45 seconds]. That's from memory, but the difference was between one and three minutes. Timing is just for the machine to be available - I used the interface, using powershell may be faster. (They never gave me the keys to AWS so that's all I had - don't know the AWS time.) She didn't have a good response - but she was new and that was a year ago so YMMV. Hope that's helpful, -Chris C.
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I worked with a Linux person that badmouthed Azure's Linux offering because it took several minutes to spin up a VM. He was working toward "servers as cattle not servers as pets" and wanted to be able to replace the prod environment quickly as soon as a problem was detected. I actually faced a MSFT rep and showed her the difference between spinning up a CentOS machine on Azure [~2 minutes] vs. Digital Ocean (I think) [45 seconds]. That's from memory, but the difference was between one and three minutes. Timing is just for the machine to be available - I used the interface, using powershell may be faster. (They never gave me the keys to AWS so that's all I had - don't know the AWS time.) She didn't have a good response - but she was new and that was a year ago so YMMV. Hope that's helpful, -Chris C.
Useful info, thank you. :thumbsup:
Nish Nishant Consultant Software Architect Ganymede Software Solutions LLC www.ganymedesoftwaresolutions.com
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Useful info, thank you. :thumbsup:
Nish Nishant Consultant Software Architect Ganymede Software Solutions LLC www.ganymedesoftwaresolutions.com
I ran across something about reserve instances, it sounds relevant, but to be honest I'm more of a dev than a devOp person these days (at this job; everything subject to change!). Also, the 'better than per-second billing' in Azure where the round down to the nearest minute may be important if you're servers blip in and out of existance (345 seconds would be billed as just five minutes). Full disclosure I do have an Azure personal preference because it is so easy to spin up and use sql server and .net. HTH, -Chris C.
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I ran across something about reserve instances, it sounds relevant, but to be honest I'm more of a dev than a devOp person these days (at this job; everything subject to change!). Also, the 'better than per-second billing' in Azure where the round down to the nearest minute may be important if you're servers blip in and out of existance (345 seconds would be billed as just five minutes). Full disclosure I do have an Azure personal preference because it is so easy to spin up and use sql server and .net. HTH, -Chris C.
Thank you again, Chris.
Nish Nishant Consultant Software Architect Ganymede Software Solutions LLC www.ganymedesoftwaresolutions.com
