Cloud Wars - Amazon v. Rackspace v. Microsoft v. Google
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Just wanted to see what the lounge consensus is for cloud migration. Winner / choice and why? At a previous job, we hosted on Amazon, and I remember they had some proprietary scheme for db backups where you couldn't get at your backup except to restore it on their servers/systems. Anybody know if this is still a constraint?
I've used both Azure and AWS and find Azure to be easier and more friendly to use and use it for my side projects. That being said AWS has been around longer (it's interface still looks pretty much like it did back when it first came out). In the company I'm currently with we have a lot of constraints around data privacy and regulations to follow and have been using AWS as we found Azure didn't fully meet those needs yet (parts of AWS are off limits to us as well due to the same issues). I'd recommend Azure if you don't have an regulatory constraints as it's the easier product to use. If you do have constraints then you'll have to sit down with the lawyers and figure out which one will work best (probably AWS).