Their multi-region setup (SQL primary/secondary, app services with Traffic Manager, Kubernetes in both regions) failed over automatically during the West US outage with little impact.
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Tried it for hosting a Minecraft server and it worked smoothly until the free credits ran out.
They consider Azure the best of the big three, like its UI and report no downtime on any of their products.
They had no issues for years on Azure and this was the first outage to affect them since 2022; their VM and app gateways stayed up while Front Door and CDN failed.
They have used Azure for pretty big projects and never had the slightest problem.
They built a large multi-tenant service on Terraform and Azure that has run smoothly for years, with only occasional hiccups like any platform.
They run a couple of B2ms VMs with docker containers and a storage account with snapshot backups, mainly for the uptime, and note that outbound traffic is charged.
Their company spends about 1.5m a year on Azure and has had only one hiccup in 6 years, a billing mistake fixed within 15 minutes.
Their company has been fully on Azure for years with a couple hundred VMs and services, and they call it rock solid with none of the OP issues.
Runs a Windows Server 2016 VM for about $165 a month with premium SSD storage and extra memory, hosting three apps needed from anywhere, and it has worked out great so far.
They run SFTP on a small burstable Azure Windows VM with Bitvise, call it rock solid and find reserved pricing manageable.
They run critical national infrastructure on Azure and have not seen the problems the OP describes, only a harmless IRQ imbalance and no endemic issues.
Common questions about Microsoft Azure
Is Microsoft Azure worth it?
Of the 180 reviews with a clear verdict, 21% are positive, 13% mixed and 66% negative. The praise mentioned most is easy to use. The most common complaint is poor support.
What do people like about Microsoft Azure?
The praise reviewers mention most: easy to use (11 reviews), helpful support (6 reviews) and reliable (6 reviews). For example: They use both Azure and AWS, find them similar on price, and say Azure is much easier to set up and navigate.
What are the most common complaints about Microsoft Azure?
The complaints reviewers mention most: poor support (42 reviews), surprise bill (22 reviews) and outages (21 reviews). For example: They use both AWS and Azure at work and find getting things done in Azure painful, with support worse than AWS.
What does the signal score of 62 mean?
It's how well reviewed Microsoft Azure is, out of 100. Negative and mixed reviews take points off, and so does having only a few reviews: a service needs plenty of them, compared with the most-reviewed services here, to reach the high 80s and 90s. It's worked out from reviews only, needs at least 5 of them, and updates as new ones come in.
What are the specs of Microsoft Azure?
Category: Cloud platform. Free plan: Yes.
Where do these Microsoft Azure reviews come from?
331 are quotes from Reddit, each linked to the original. Customer reviews are checked for spam before they appear. Every review, written here or quoted, is read as positive, mixed or negative.
