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The provider needs to comply with specific rules, have specific certifications, and sign specific agreements. You check the boxes, and you're good to go. Microsoft does that better than anyone. OpenAI and Anthropic don't do that at all. Google does that rarely and poorly. AWS is not bad, but not as good as Microsoft. Azure was always my go-to for regulate", "context": "works on regulated applications", "use_case": "regulated cloud applications", "switched_from": "", "story": "Kimi-K3 Releases on HuggingFace 6/27"}, {"id": 771836625, "item_id": 48239789, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48239789", "by": "wkcheng", "date": "2026-05-22", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Just use it through something like Azure.", "excerpt": "Just use it through something like Azure. They host the entire model and serve it from the US. I'm sure that there are other providers like this. We use it that way and it works great.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "DeepSeek makes the V4 Pro price discount permanent"}, {"id": 771419152, "item_id": 48213697, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48213697", "by": "jiggawatts", "date": "2026-05-20", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "It\u2019s the enterprise cloud with enterprise support.", "excerpt": "I love how everyone in Silicon Valley acts like Microsoft doesn\u2019t exist. Azure! It\u2019s the enterprise cloud with enterprise support. They won\u2019t randomly pull the plug on your account, unlike companies that have a wildly different cultural background: Google - ad tech (you\u2019re the product Oracle - lawyers (you\u2019re a future lawsuit for license extortion) AWS - shop front (you\u2019re a comptetitor) Etc\u2026", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Railway GCP Account Suspension Incident Report"}, {"id": 771128288, "item_id": 48195518, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48195518", "by": "kittoes", "date": "2026-05-19", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "This can be done in Azure using Entra (OAuth).", "excerpt": "This can be done in Azure using Entra (OAuth). I don't have API keys, or passwords of any kind, anywhere in the stack. Infrastructure - https://dev.azure.com/byteterrace/Koholint/_git/Azure.Resources Server - https://dev.azure.com/byteterrace/Koholint/_git/Web.Functions Client - https://dev.azure.com/byteterrace/Koholint/_git/Web.Portal", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "CISA Admin Leaked AWS GovCloud Keys on GitHub"}, {"id": 762016784, "item_id": 47626049, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47626049", "by": "pjmlp", "date": "2026-04-03", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "The main reason I used to push for Azure instead during the last years was the friendliness of their Web UIs", "excerpt": "I have had bad experiences across all major vendors. The main reason I used to push for Azure instead during the last years was the friendliness of their Web UIs, and having the VS Code integration (it started as an Azure product after all).", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Decisions that eroded trust in Azure \u2013 by a former Azure Core engineer"}]}], "caveats": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 802158851, "item_id": 50134928, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50134928", "by": "rf15", "date": "2026-10-17", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "Azure and GitHub are completely out of the question", "excerpt": "In our european company (insurance/gov space) we use Teams, Outlook, Sharepoint as side products of Office, largely to get the official editing tools for the documents our clients provide. Depending on who you are in our company, you are using either Mac or Windows, although we are slowly shifting to OpenSUSE. 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But I was almost the smallest cog in the corporate structure, so I never asked what were the reasons for all these decisions.", "context": "worked at an EU company building a product competing with Microsoft's", "use_case": "hosting", "switched_from": "", "story": "The Navier\u2013Stokes Millennium Prize Problem"}, {"id": 791664784, "item_id": 49479049, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49479049", "by": "disgruntledphd2", "date": "2026-08-28", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "now I use Azure and I hate that so much more", "excerpt": "> That\u2019s my experience with any of the 3 hyperscalers when reading docs. I used to hate the AWS docs, now I use Azure and I hate that so much more. At least AWS had loads of (bad) docs that you could string together to figure out how to do something. With Azure, there's just no docs (except for bad videos), and they literally tell you (at the top of every page) that you can do this with AI (I know I can do it with AI", "context": "", "use_case": "cloud platform documentation", "switched_from": "AWS", "story": "I used AWS cognito for a startup. I wouldn't do it again"}, {"id": 789494113, "item_id": 49343382, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49343382", "by": "SyneRyder", "date": "2026-08-18", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "Azure has less than 99% uptime", "excerpt": "Seems reasonably clear to me? Potentially bringing in more customers who use OpenRouter for trying out all the models with rapid switching, enticing them to use Sol. And anyone being routed on price will immediately be switched to OpenAI's servers instead. 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Happy for any feedback!", "context": "", "use_case": "cloud hosting", "switched_from": "", "story": "Cloudexit \u2013 assess your cloud exit readiness"}, {"id": 786840512, "item_id": 49177532, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49177532", "by": "MehulMangave", "date": "2026-08-04", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Technologies: AWS, Azure, Terraform, Python, CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes, Backend systems, RAG/LLM pipelines, AI agents/MCP", "excerpt": "Location: SF Bay Area Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: AWS, Azure, Terraform, Python, CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes, Backend systems, RAG/LLM pipelines, AI agents/MCP R\u00e9sum\u00e9/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QS9N0TTYbmhfTP9U_Dzx70T_95_-SZdT/view?usp=sharing Portfolio: https://mehul-portfolio-sand.vercel.app/ Email: mehul.mangave@sjsu.edu I am a recent MS Computer Engineering grad (SJSU, May 2026) loo", "context": "Recent MS Computer Engineering grad (SJSU, May 2026)", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2026)"}, {"id": 786638296, "item_id": 49164893, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49164893", "by": "eshaagrawal10", "date": "2026-08-03", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "using Python, FastAPI, Databricks, Azure", "excerpt": "Location: Chennai,India Remote: Yes Wiling to relocate - Yes Technologies - Python, REST API, Flask, Langchain, LLM, Microsoft Purview, and AI Tools - Claude, Cursor and GPT Resume - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1thdPR0TWgOyPFAUiQNc3qvWAfhrDwiBr/view?usp=drivesdk LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/esha-agrawal1?utm_source=share_via&utm_content=profile&utm_medium=member_android Email - eshaagrawal108@gmail.com ", "context": "AI engineer, nearly 2 years experience", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2026)"}, {"id": 785757633, "item_id": 49109852, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49109852", "by": "redwood", "date": "2026-07-30", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "a shock that anyone is trusting Microsoft, Azure or in particular Cosmos DB with anything mission critical", "excerpt": "Incredible that this is the second time Wiz has discovered a global Cosmos DB vulnerability (https://chaosdb.wiz.io/) and a shock that anyone is trusting Microsoft, Azure or in particular Cosmos DB with anything mission critical", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "CosmosEscape: Taking over Every Database in Azure Cosmos DB"}, {"id": 785304912, "item_id": 49081557, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49081557", "by": "amluto", "date": "2026-07-28", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "", "excerpt": "https://windowsforum.com/security-alerts.84/cve-2025-55241-entra-id-cross-tenant-impersonation-mitigations-and-best-practices.383840/ https://orca.security/resources/blog/autowarp-microsoft-azure-automation-service-vulnerability/ https://petri.com/microsoft-azure-automation-cross-tenant-access-flaw/ I don\u2019t recall much in the way of AWS vulnerabilities like these, but they\u2019re a regular occurrence on Azure.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Kimi-K3 Releases on HuggingFace 6/27"}, {"id": 785204256, "item_id": 49075266, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49075266", "by": "frognumber", "date": "2026-07-27", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Azure was always my go-to for regulated applications in the cloud.", "excerpt": "At least for regulated applications I worked on, no one cared. The provider needs to comply with specific rules, have specific certifications, and sign specific agreements. You check the boxes, and you're good to go. Microsoft does that better than anyone. OpenAI and Anthropic don't do that at all. Google does that rarely and poorly. AWS is not bad, but not as good as Microsoft. Azure was always my go-to for regulate", "context": "works on regulated applications", "use_case": "regulated cloud applications", "switched_from": "", "story": "Kimi-K3 Releases on HuggingFace 6/27"}, {"id": 784449867, "item_id": 49028116, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49028116", "by": "bob1029", "date": "2026-07-23", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "Azure is a complete dumpster fire of a cloud, on average", "excerpt": "Microsoft is a big place. I recommend focusing on the parts they do well rather than getting tribal. All of the following products and services are fantastic in 2026: Windows Server SQL Server .NET/C#/F#/Nuget Visual Studio [code] SSMS AAD/EntraID Defender DirectX Excel I agree that Teams still kind of sucks and that Azure is a complete dumpster fire of a cloud, on average. But that doesn't mean we should throw the p", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask: Why does everything Microsoft create lately feel fragile and half-baked?"}, {"id": 783652881, "item_id": 48978305, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48978305", "by": "khurs", "date": "2026-07-20", "version": null, "stance": "compare", "quote": "Microsoft moved late with Azure, but as they had so many customers in B2B already with SQL Server and Office, that they soon grew market share.", "excerpt": "AWS were first and dominated. Microsoft moved late with Azure, but as they had so many customers in B2B already with SQL Server and Office, that they soon grew market share. Google Cloud followed. Market Share 2026 AWS 28% Azure 21% Google 14% https://www.statista.com/chart/18819/worldwide-market-share-of-leading-cloud-infrastructure-service-providers/", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Airbus Takes Flight from AWS"}, {"id": 782132707, "item_id": 48883294, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48883294", "by": "nobodyandproud", "date": "2026-07-12", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "infected with Nadella and Azure/Entra/365", "excerpt": "That hasn\u2019t been true for some time. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/deploying/native-aot/?tabs=windows%2Cnet8 The reason to dislike .NET is Microsoft\u2019s now weak engineering. Their cloud team has negative impact on the entire org, and Microsoft engineers like Raymond Chen seem to be a rarity. Even former cash cows like Windows and Office are struggling and infected with Nadella and Azure/Entra/365/who-k", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "G#: A modern .NET language with Go, Kotlin, and Swift ergonomics"}, {"id": 781417584, "item_id": 48838599, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48838599", "by": "beaulightsight", "date": "2026-07-08", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "We predominantly work in Azure/Go/React (TypeScript)", "excerpt": "LightSight | Forward Deployed Software Engineer (multiple levels) | REMOTE (US) | Full-time LightSight is a forward-deployed consulting company building customized solutions for mid-sized firms, predominantly in the Midwest. We're a team of former Microsoft engineers/PMs bringing our experience with internal process improvement on Microsoft datacenters to other organizations. 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(July 2026)"}, {"id": 779989044, "item_id": 48749315, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48749315", "by": "TheITConsultant", "date": "2026-07-01", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Azure architecture & DevOps", "excerpt": "Location: EU Remote: YES Willing to relocate: NO Technologies: AI tooling, C/C++/Rust/Node/React/Python, Azure/AWS/Docker/K8S, DevOps tooling, ML/BigData/Search tooling ... and much more R\u00e9sum\u00e9/CV: https://www.theconsultantcto.com/share/LM_TCO_2026.pdf?sid=hn2607 Email: lajos [@] theconsultantcto.com I'm a senior and highly experienced IT developer, architect, DevOps and agentic engineer. I build (and fix) systems ac", "context": "senior developer, architect, DevOps and agentic engineer", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2026)"}, {"id": 778102112, "item_id": 48631382, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48631382", "by": "joks", "date": "2026-06-22", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "during a pair of deploys to Azure", "excerpt": "This was pretty brief, around 10am. I also saw multiple DNS failures at 10am sharp during a pair of deploys to Azure so I wonder if there was some kind of brief widespread DNS outage. Edit: Cloudflare has an \"increased error rates\" incident going right now that started around 9:35am that they're saying is due to a fiber cut. They're still working to resolve the issue but maybe it was partially worked around pretty qu", "context": "", "use_case": "Cloud deployments", "switched_from": "", "story": "X down for users globally, Downdetector shows"}, {"id": 776672794, "item_id": 48542049, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48542049", "by": "palmaec", "date": "2026-06-15", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "GCP, Azure", "excerpt": "Location: Brazil. Remote: Yes (ok to work in US and Western Europe timezones). Willing to relocate: Not yet. Recently used technologies: Kotlin, Javascript, Typescript, Python, SQL (Postgres, Sqlite); Android app dev; NodeJS, Ktor; Apache Spark (including structured streaming), Jupyter; Terraform, Kubernetes; GCP, Azure (data ingestion/processing, architecture). LLMs, etc: been playing with that in my workflows. Othe", "context": "job seeker in Brazil", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2026)"}, {"id": 776050400, "item_id": 48503150, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48503150", "by": "hinata08", "date": "2026-06-12", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "absolutely looks like a admission that they do", "excerpt": "they never promised they won't look into them, they just suggest it The way they break the informative tone and circle around the bush in AZ900 absolutely looks like a admission that they do and is peak hilarious: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/training/modules/describe-cloud-compute/4-describe-shared-responsibility-model >Describe the shared responsibility model > How responsibilities shift in cloud \"the consumer", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Digital Sovereignty Becomes an Imperative as the US Reads Dutch Emails"}, {"id": 774036880, "item_id": 48377305, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48377305", "by": "keeda", "date": "2026-06-02", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "", "excerpt": "> ... but they have continued year over year for the past 3 years failed to deliver in AI. The vibes may not be with them but enterprise adoption seems to be: https://www.a16z.news/p/leaders-gainers-and-unexpected-winners?open=false#%C2%A7in-enterprise-ai-apps-the-winner-so-far-ismicrosoft At $37B they also have the highest publicly disclosed AI ARR in the industry, so the article above is probably not too wrong. Sur", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Microsoft Announces AI Autopilot"}, {"id": 773887891, "item_id": 48367993, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48367993", "by": "johnvonoakland", "date": "2026-06-02", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Azure SaaS syncing financial institutions", "excerpt": "Location: Prague, Czech Republic Remote: Yes (CET, comfortable with EU + US East overlap) Willing to relocate: No Technologies: C#/.NET 9/10, React/TypeScript, Azure (Functions, Service Bus, AKS, DevOps), SQL Server/Azure SQL, Semantic Kernel, Claude API, RAG/agentic systems R\u00e9sum\u00e9/CV: https://ivanjurina.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ivanjurina/ Email: ivanjurina@ivanjurina.com Senior engineer, 10 years p", "context": "Senior C#/.NET engineer, 10 years, job seeking", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2026)"}, {"id": 773776613, "item_id": 48361038, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48361038", "by": "vladdoster", "date": "2026-06-01", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "running on Azure and AWS", "excerpt": "Location: Nashville, TN Remote: true Willing to relocate: false Technologies: Python, Django, IaC, Terraform, Golang, CI/CD, Azure/AWS, {ba,z}sh, Lua, Springboot, Redis, Docker, Open Service Broker, {,non}relational & vector dbs, shared services, SOA Email: mvdoster@gmail.com resume: https://linkedin.vdoster.com && http://github.com/vladdoster sr. cloud software engineer @ Mastercard (5 years) Designed and built Plat", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2026)"}, {"id": 773731910, "item_id": 48358244, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48358244", "by": "jon_north", "date": "2026-06-01", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "AWS, Azure, GCP", "excerpt": "Location: USA Remote: Preferred Willing to relocate: Maybe Expert backend developer primarily focused on data engineering, mission critical/low latency/highly available systems, and AWS (certs: https://www.credly.com/users/jon-north.ad78f0c8). Happy to deal with greenfield or legacy or any mix of the two. I learn new things extremely quickly. I prefer long term contract work, though I\u2019ll help you with smaller things ", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2026)"}, {"id": 772729905, "item_id": 48295619, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48295619", "by": "desireco42", "date": "2026-05-27", "version": null, "stance": "compare", "quote": "Azure (MS) even though it looks crazy complex, once you get used to it, you can find things.", "excerpt": "I love direction and features Claudflare is taking, they are really impressive. And since I use their service on several projects, I can say I am overall very happy with service. Only thing, they are going strongly in AWS territory and not in any good way. Finding what I need and what I use has become harder as times go by. By contast, Azure (MS) even though it looks crazy complex, once you get used to it, you can fi", "context": "", "use_case": "cloud platform", "switched_from": "", "story": "Cloudflare Flagship"}, {"id": 772533299, "item_id": 48283331, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48283331", "by": "Subtextofficial", "date": "2026-05-26", "version": null, "stance": "compare", "quote": "10x faster than Azure at same price", "excerpt": "Built this in a week on owned hardware (4x GPU, 32 shards). Running on a single machine in Portland with $126/mo overhead. Live endpoints: - Emotion detection: 16ms P50, 10x faster than Azure at same price - CRISPR guide RNA design: only self-serve API, Benchling charges $20k+/year - Protein folding: ESMFold, sub-10s vs hours on AlphaFold queue - Local LLM: 97% cheaper than OpenAI, data never leaves the server - Town", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": null}, {"id": 772232176, "item_id": 48264511, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48264511", "by": "scrollaway", "date": "2026-05-25", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "Azure UX is atrocious", "excerpt": "Agreed; and more generally, Microsoft's online services in general are terrible. Their login system is a mess, their UX is awful... our company is a microsoft partner but there's like 27 different ways to be one, with a bunch of different accounts, forms and systems for it. Azure UX is atrocious. And this nonsense spills into every single enterprise product they offer too (how many people complain about Teams?). Here", "context": "works at a Microsoft partner in Belgium", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Scammers are abusing an internal Microsoft account to send spam links"}, {"id": 771836625, "item_id": 48239789, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48239789", "by": "wkcheng", "date": "2026-05-22", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Just use it through something like Azure.", "excerpt": "Just use it through something like Azure. They host the entire model and serve it from the US. I'm sure that there are other providers like this. We use it that way and it works great.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "DeepSeek makes the V4 Pro price discount permanent"}, {"id": 771419152, "item_id": 48213697, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48213697", "by": "jiggawatts", "date": "2026-05-20", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "It\u2019s the enterprise cloud with enterprise support.", "excerpt": "I love how everyone in Silicon Valley acts like Microsoft doesn\u2019t exist. Azure! It\u2019s the enterprise cloud with enterprise support. They won\u2019t randomly pull the plug on your account, unlike companies that have a wildly different cultural background: Google - ad tech (you\u2019re the product Oracle - lawyers (you\u2019re a future lawsuit for license extortion) AWS - shop front (you\u2019re a comptetitor) Etc\u2026", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Railway GCP Account Suspension Incident Report"}, {"id": 771252320, "item_id": 48203270, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48203270", "by": "CGamesPlay", "date": "2026-05-19", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "The company that had 40 million Azure servers compromised?", "excerpt": "> For a Fortune 100, to go out of your way to spook investors is the least desirable approach. The company that had 40 million Azure servers compromised? This is a drop in the bucket, the investors clearly do not care about this. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2026/05/18/storm-2949-turned-compromised-identity-into-cloud-wide-breach/", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "GitHub is investigating unauthorized access to their internal repositories"}, {"id": 771128288, "item_id": 48195518, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48195518", "by": "kittoes", "date": "2026-05-19", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "This can be done in Azure using Entra (OAuth).", "excerpt": "This can be done in Azure using Entra (OAuth). I don't have API keys, or passwords of any kind, anywhere in the stack. Infrastructure - https://dev.azure.com/byteterrace/Koholint/_git/Azure.Resources Server - https://dev.azure.com/byteterrace/Koholint/_git/Web.Functions Client - https://dev.azure.com/byteterrace/Koholint/_git/Web.Portal", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "CISA Admin Leaked AWS GovCloud Keys on GitHub"}]}