They found Cosmos for Mongo slow and unreliable and switched to Atlas. They also call Azure support utterly useless and App Services gimmicky.
62signal
331reviewsi
A score out of 100. Negative and mixed reviews take points off, and so does having only a few reviews, so a handful of glowing reviews can’t beat a product many people like.
21% Positive13%66% Negative
What customers love, and what they don’tWhat customers noticed
Customer reviews (331)
Add your reviewShowing 26 reviews mentioning slow Show all
Their VMs sat on full servers with no capacity, so every small hiccup shuffled the whole rack slowly, and they eventually moved region.
A longtime AWS user learning Azure for a year, they find deploying resources with Terraform takes twice as long.
They replicated their AWS environment in Azure and found basic operations unsupported in the web interface, needing the CLI, with operations randomly taking hours and an overall lack of maturity.
In their update they call Azure Virtual Desktop a disaster with slowness and repeated installation errors.
After hands-on development on both AWS and Azure they hate Azure for cumbersome tools, bad docs, slowness and hard debugging.
They hit a hidden zero compute quota, slow image pickup and logs that randomly stopped on App Service, then moved to AKS and Databricks.
They hit quota limits on a dev subscription and say it took hours for Microsoft to add one CPU to a small server.
They moved a small VM hosting public websites from AWS to Azure using free credits, found VM creation and disk changes slow, then had everything go down over a billing issue that required phoning support to unlock the account, after which they left.
Their 200-person company moved to Azure Virtual Desktop with Nerdio and users complain of slow startup and sluggish Revit and AutoCAD, even with a big test environment.
They find the Azure ARM API far slower than AWS and GCP and call Azure premier support a joke.
After about 5 years of daily Azure use they report a slow, fragile management API, awkward resource IDs and slow premier support compared with AWS and GCP.
Their fleet is Linux on Azure and one of their biggest gripes is how slow operations are versus AWS, even simple firewall rule updates being glacial via portal and API.
They describe a buggy and slow console, a poor Terraform provider, useless support and constant capacity problems. They say engineering hours lost outweigh any cost savings.
After years on AWS they regret every time they use Azure, calling it clunky and slow with Microsoft showing no desire to fix it.
They found EU capacity and performance worse on Azure than AWS, with outages that caused production line downtime, and also security headaches.
Having used both AWS and Azure, they say resources provision much faster on AWS while Azure can take hours, which discourages experimentation and fine tuning.
They tried all three big clouds while upskilling and found Azure had the worst developer experience, feeling slower with a bloated UI.
After years in AWS they spent time in an Azure workshop and disliked slow service starts, sometimes hours for a VM or database, and breaking UI or API changes.
From the few times they used Azure they found it slow, with confusing UI, CLI and APIs and messy docs.
Their two side projects on Azure Container Apps had cold starts around 20 seconds and billed for idle time. They are moving everything to Google Cloud where Cloud Run starts in about 1 second.
For mobile app work they hit small Azure DevOps agents that time out on iOS builds, a slow portal, contradictory docs and poorly maintained client libraries.
They find Azure VM and database provisioning takes far longer than EC2 or RDS.
Their AWS shop tried Azure OpenAI and is moving back to Bedrock because of high GPT-4 latency and messy model availability by region.
They teach their techs that the first rule of Azure is to wait, since config changes can take a very long time to propagate.
They found Azure horrible with Terraform, with a load balancer rule update taking 45 minutes.
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.
