Azure vs. AWS Cloud Service Comparison: Which One is Better?
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Cloud Services Comparisons: Azure vs AWS - Which One Is Better?[^]
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare Home | LinkedIn | Google+ | Twitter
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Cloud Services Comparisons: Azure vs AWS - Which One Is Better?[^]
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare Home | LinkedIn | Google+ | Twitter
stackify said:
Customers love Amazon Web Services (AWS). There is no doubt about that. The segment earned a profit of more than $3 billion on revenues of more than $12 billion for the full year of 2016.
Revenues are a poor indicator of customer satisfaction, in tech services, especially "new" tech, like cloud services. Their revenues are going up for three reasons: 0. More companies are being conned into using cloud services 1. Their psychopathic boss was hailed as being the world's richest man, and lots of the people who impose choices on IT matters aspire to that 2. Related to 2: the choice of external IT services and products is rarely made by the people who have to maintain and use the services/products, especially in larger companies -- and aws has shinier ads, to attract the non-technically-minded If you think that revenues mean customer satisfaction, think oracle. That will put paid to such silly notions. One thing that the article misses is amazon's recent decision to build its own database solution, based on an old version of the open-source database they used previously. I would suggest that security problems are more likely to arise from using an older version, which has not had a few years' worth of updates.
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stackify said:
Customers love Amazon Web Services (AWS). There is no doubt about that. The segment earned a profit of more than $3 billion on revenues of more than $12 billion for the full year of 2016.
Revenues are a poor indicator of customer satisfaction, in tech services, especially "new" tech, like cloud services. Their revenues are going up for three reasons: 0. More companies are being conned into using cloud services 1. Their psychopathic boss was hailed as being the world's richest man, and lots of the people who impose choices on IT matters aspire to that 2. Related to 2: the choice of external IT services and products is rarely made by the people who have to maintain and use the services/products, especially in larger companies -- and aws has shinier ads, to attract the non-technically-minded If you think that revenues mean customer satisfaction, think oracle. That will put paid to such silly notions. One thing that the article misses is amazon's recent decision to build its own database solution, based on an old version of the open-source database they used previously. I would suggest that security problems are more likely to arise from using an older version, which has not had a few years' worth of updates.
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Love the zero-indexed list! C coders of the world unite and take over!
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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Love the zero-indexed list! C coders of the world unite and take over!
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
PeejayAdams wrote:
and take cover
FTFY :laugh:
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge". Stephen Hawking, 1942- 2018
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Cloud Services Comparisons: Azure vs AWS - Which One Is Better?[^]
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare Home | LinkedIn | Google+ | Twitter
The reality is that it's more about perception than, um, reality. And my perception is that AWS is far superior. One of the primary reasons for that perception is that AWS offered a one year free tier which perfectly suited my needs. At the time (and I think this is still true) Microsoft didn't/doesn't. Initially, Azure seemed like a "me too!!!!" knee-jerk reaction to AWS's success. I don't like "me too!!!!" companies. Conversely (another thing that post didn't mention) is documentation. In my experience, the documentation for AWS truly sucks. Finding an answer ends up being a circular maze of page after page where nothing actually answers my question. I found this to be particularly true when trying to figure out why I was still being charged for a closed account (turned out I had another open account that I'd forgotten about.) But the same goes for technical questions -- I often find pages that are obsolete and nobody has removed. And what about customer service? When I contacted Amazon, I never got the issue resolved because the account in question, which they could see, couldn't be cancelled because it required "verification" from me. Which meant that at a minimum, they had to verify the callback number I had listed on the account. The problem is, I'd moved, gotten a new home number, and obviously had never updated my account information. So while they could see it, there was no way I could convince them that I was I because the callback number didn't work. So, back to perception. My perception now is that AWS, holistically, pretty much sucks and my perception of cloud computing in general has soured. Which is why I cancelled all my accounts and host my web sites at home, myself. In the end, that's cheaper and just as fast. I'm not concerned about the very rare downtime due to power outages (the server is a laptop, the router and cable boxes are on battery backup) and if the site goes down for a couple hours, nobody is going to care. Obviously, if I were a company where I needed the services that cloud computing offered, that would be a different story, and again perception kicks in -- I would still go with AWS.
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Love the zero-indexed list! C coders of the world unite and take over!
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
PeejayAdams wrote:
Love the zero-indexed list!
That's pretty much become the rule, in CP, unless you use the ol and li tags. I picked up on it because @JSOP always used zero-based, and it felt like the right thing to do*. * And because I can't type and dodge bullets at the same time
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stackify said:
Customers love Amazon Web Services (AWS). There is no doubt about that. The segment earned a profit of more than $3 billion on revenues of more than $12 billion for the full year of 2016.
Revenues are a poor indicator of customer satisfaction, in tech services, especially "new" tech, like cloud services. Their revenues are going up for three reasons: 0. More companies are being conned into using cloud services 1. Their psychopathic boss was hailed as being the world's richest man, and lots of the people who impose choices on IT matters aspire to that 2. Related to 2: the choice of external IT services and products is rarely made by the people who have to maintain and use the services/products, especially in larger companies -- and aws has shinier ads, to attract the non-technically-minded If you think that revenues mean customer satisfaction, think oracle. That will put paid to such silly notions. One thing that the article misses is amazon's recent decision to build its own database solution, based on an old version of the open-source database they used previously. I would suggest that security problems are more likely to arise from using an older version, which has not had a few years' worth of updates.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
In my limited experience (home use) Azure is far easier to use, as in I could actually do something! With AWS I failed miserably.
Kevin
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stackify said:
Customers love Amazon Web Services (AWS). There is no doubt about that. The segment earned a profit of more than $3 billion on revenues of more than $12 billion for the full year of 2016.
Revenues are a poor indicator of customer satisfaction, in tech services, especially "new" tech, like cloud services. Their revenues are going up for three reasons: 0. More companies are being conned into using cloud services 1. Their psychopathic boss was hailed as being the world's richest man, and lots of the people who impose choices on IT matters aspire to that 2. Related to 2: the choice of external IT services and products is rarely made by the people who have to maintain and use the services/products, especially in larger companies -- and aws has shinier ads, to attract the non-technically-minded If you think that revenues mean customer satisfaction, think oracle. That will put paid to such silly notions. One thing that the article misses is amazon's recent decision to build its own database solution, based on an old version of the open-source database they used previously. I would suggest that security problems are more likely to arise from using an older version, which has not had a few years' worth of updates.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
None the less, revenue is a better tool for comparison than the garbage fire of an article.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason? Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful? --Zachris Topelius Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies. -- Sarah Hoyt
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None the less, revenue is a better tool for comparison than the garbage fire of an article.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason? Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful? --Zachris Topelius Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies. -- Sarah Hoyt
I can't argue with that.
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