Microsoft Azure
No written verdict yet. Here is what commenters said.
Why people recommend it
“Azure was always my go-to for regulated applications in the cloud.”
“Just use it through something like Azure.”
Show 3 more
“It’s the enterprise cloud with enterprise support.”
“This can be done in Azure using Entra (OAuth).”
“The main reason I used to push for Azure instead during the last years was the friendliness of their Web UIs”
Caveats and dissent
“Azure and GitHub are completely out of the question”
“To me it looked absurd.”
Show 2 more
“now I use Azure and I hate that so much more”
Often compared with
Amazon Web Services50 comments mention both1 moved from Amazon Web Services to Microsoft Azure
2 moved from Microsoft Azure to Hetzner CloudMicrosoft SQL Server10 comments mention both
Who recommends it in their own words
From the makers not counted in the ranking
“We own the backend services powering Azure deployments”
“literally everything I have used in Azure makes me absolutely HATE working in the cloud”
“Azure has recently announced "direct virtualization"”
Threads where it came up
- Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer 7 mentions
- Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2026) 4 mentions
- Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2026) 4 mentions
- Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2026) 3 mentions
- I returned to AWS, and was reminded why I left 3 mentions
- Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2026) 3 mentions
Also written as Microsoft Azure. Data: microsoft-azure.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 40
“I use Azure for work”
“Azure (https://azure.microsoft.com/en-in/solutions/government) also provide said services”
“Azure and GitHub are completely out of the question”
“There only thing that checks of your list is Azure hosting.”
Many providers try to offer as much ZDR as they can, OpenRouter is an example https://openrouter.ai/docs/guides/features/zdr They give administrators toggles to turn off models which do not fit company ZDR policies, in part because Anthropic forces resellers to comply with Anthropic's (eg.) 30 day retention.
“AWS, Azure, Docker, CI/CD”
“Postgres, Azure, K8s”
“AWS, Azure, GCP”
“To me it looked absurd.”
“now I use Azure and I hate that so much more”
“Azure has less than 99% uptime”
“Azure Capacity Crunch Extends into 2026 Amid Data Center Constraints”
“Our stack is mostly TypeScript/Node, SvelteKit, Postgres, Azure and Cloudflare.”
“Azure/AWS”
“I use both AWS and Azure myself”
“Technologies: AWS, Azure, Terraform, Python, CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes, Backend systems, RAG/LLM pipelines, AI agents/MCP”
“using Python, FastAPI, Databricks, Azure”
“a shock that anyone is trusting Microsoft, Azure or in particular Cosmos DB with anything mission critical”
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’t recall much in the way of AWS vulnerabilities like these, but they’re a regular occurrence on Azure.
“Azure was always my go-to for regulated applications in the cloud.”
“Azure is a complete dumpster fire of a cloud, on average”
“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.”
“infected with Nadella and Azure/Entra/365”
“We predominantly work in Azure/Go/React (TypeScript)”
“it's a .NET-on-Windows/Azure shop”
“Azure architecture & DevOps”
“during a pair of deploys to Azure”
“GCP, Azure”
“absolutely looks like a admission that they do”
> ... 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
“Azure SaaS syncing financial institutions”
“running on Azure and AWS”
“AWS, Azure, GCP”
“Azure (MS) even though it looks crazy complex, once you get used to it, you can find things.”
“10x faster than Azure at same price”
“Azure UX is atrocious”
“Just use it through something like Azure.”
“It’s the enterprise cloud with enterprise support.”
“The company that had 40 million Azure servers compromised?”
“This can be done in Azure using Entra (OAuth).”