Microsoft Azure

103 engineers on Hacker News describe using Microsoft Azure first-hand: 20 endorse it, 27 regret it, 5 are mixed.

43%trust
103first-hand users
97in production
endorse 20mixed 5regret 27uses, no opinion

“we run our AI assistant with models from Azure, which works fine!”

endorse · production · luplex · 2026-07-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“we run on Azure and they like to cause rolling outages across our fleet via VM maintenance”

regret · production · nosefrog · 2026-07-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“We got burned by Azure as I'm sure many other enterprises have, and they did exactly nothing to remedy/compensate the situation”

regret · production · supliminal · 2026-04-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Working with Azure was one of the worst parts of that job.”

regret · production · derwiki · 2026-04-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“We have a corporate account and can't access GPT 5 because... I dunno. We just can't.”

regret · production · jiggawatts · 2025-12-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“one of our self-hosted CI outages was caused by Azure — we have to get VMs from somewhere, and Azure … simply ran out.”

regret · production · deathanatos · 2025-11-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I work at a startup that runs on Azure, and we're only here because of Microsoft's monopolistic behavior.”

regret · production · nosefrog · 2025-03-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Years ago, we migrated of Rackspace to Azure, but the database latency was diabolical.”

regret · production · abrookewood · 2025-03-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“We've migrated a couple of dozen major M$ workloads from on-prem reasonably easily... But then everyone said 'a cloud should do X and Y and Z'”

mixed · production · kjs3 · 2025-01-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“It's also badly set up so all kinds of bullshit like viewing application logs requires PIM and nobody really knows how it works”

regret · production · sfn42 · 2024-12-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“we moved to azure's managed database, queue, and blob storage. The web frontend could scale based on connections, and the queue and blob storage was slower”

mixed · production · jermaustin1 · 2024-07-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Hah - yes DataDog is what we moved to after the grand Azure fail.”

regret · production · robertlagrant · 2024-06-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“It's why I'll never again use Azure for a side project”

regret · personal · spacebanana7 · 2024-05-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“We use Azure for everything else.”

endorse · production · 3 yr · bob1029 · 2023-12-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I want to like Azure but it also seems like an uncoordinated mess.”

mixed · production · RoyTyrell · 2023-12-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“As soon as azure credits stop, it gets really expensive really fast and migrating off is labor intensive ( been there, done that and I regret going through it).”

regret · production · NicoJuicy · 2023-12-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Azure is considered external even though it's walled off for us”

regret · production · fma · 2023-11-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Azure is a dumpster fire from the ground up.”

regret · production · sparc24 · 2023-10-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“We switched to Azure in 2018 and never looked back.”

endorse · production · 5 yr · mvkel · 2023-08-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Right now Azure is getting too expensive to compete, so we're likely going to leave, but it's not like it really matters”

regret · production · devjab · 2023-07-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“we gained a lot of speed when we switched to Azure. Azure has changed a lot over the years though”

endorse · production · Rutix · 2022-07-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I do like that we can manage everything in a single portal.”

endorse · production · haacked · 2022-07-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I'm once bitten twice shy after trusting that Azure would be good.”

regret · production · stepbeek · 2022-02-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Bought azure's 3000usd a month anti DDos protection, was worthless for a tcp/udp service.”

regret · production · malikNF · 2021-03-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I dont completely agree with the pricing, dont get me wrong, but i can see why they do it... in Azure's case (which is what we use in $dayjob)”

mixed · production · tiernano · 2020-12-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“This is why we migrated from Hetzner to Azure, even though Azure is wayyy more expensive.”

endorse · production · 0xcoffee · 2020-05-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“We now host our web apps with Azure without issue as well.”

endorse · production · searcheye · 2020-03-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I am constantly having problems with an Azure app at the moment timing out”

regret · production · mattmanser · 2019-12-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Azure has by far the best storage options... The azure file storage is best of class.”

endorse · production · alexnewman · 2019-12-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Azure performed maintenance on our instance, involving a restart. CloudAMQP told us that Azure do this without notifying them, or us!”

regret · production · LandR · 2019-08-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Scalability issues, they were unable to scale a server in prod past 1000 connections where as in AWS/GCP they were able to 10x that”

regret · production · victor106 · 2019-05-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“So, we use GCP Azure AWS exclusively because of their ability to defy network level ddos.”

endorse · production · InGodsName · 2018-12-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“After being an Azure shop for a year we've migrated ~50-100 VMs to GCP... I really hope there won't be a need to migrate back to Azure and its arcane and high pricing, strange UI, worse tooling”

regret · production · 1 yr · luka-birsa · 2018-11-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“100% of our managed services come from AWS and Azure.”

endorse · production · manigandham · 2018-11-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“IMO, Azure remains a garbage fire of half-finished features in almost every offering.”

regret · production · fatbird · 2018-10-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Mean-time between outages in Azure (September 2017 through August 11 2018): 1.3 days”

regret · production · dsumenkovic · 2018-09-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Azure - never again. Company moved to AWS within a quarter.”

regret · production · hb3b · 2018-08-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“we used the (deprecated) ASM model which was pretty stable instead of the newer and often broken ARM model”

mixed · production · politician · 2018-08-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I've been using a $150/mo spending limit on Azure for maybe two years now, and I can go on record stating that it is extremely accurate.”

endorse · personal · 2 yr · soverance · 2016-12-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“where I currently work we have been running or entire infrastructure on Azure since day 1. ... Not once has there been feelings of regret for choosing Azure”

endorse · production · mcaravey · 2016-11-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“We tried to use Azure for a new system ~8 months ago... we switched to AWS and had it running in a few hours.”

regret · production · MatthewMcDonald · 2016-08-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“We migrated all of our former Linode clients to AWS and Azure and have not suffered a single DDoS in the roughly 2 years since the move”

endorse · production · 2 yr · USNetizen · 2015-12-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“there is as far as I can tell absolutely no reason to choose Amazon over Microsoft Azure (yes, even for Linux systems)”

endorse · production · hoodoof · 2015-11-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Azure still has an embarrassingly bad SSD story. Even when talking to them they don't seem to realize what a useless offering they have.”

regret · production · MichaelGG · 2015-07-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“We run 50+ linux server on azure (west europe) and it's a nightmare, vm reboot unplanned,VHD diseappear.”

regret · production · erazor42 · 2015-01-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“In comparison to Azure, gcloud VMs are much faster in terms of performance.”

regret · production · nachivpn · 2014-12-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“In the last few years that I've been using it, Azure has been at least as stable as other cloud providers.”

endorse · production · 3 yr · Encosia · 2014-11-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“We use linux vms on azure with no problems at all.”

endorse · production · chollida1 · 2013-12-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Yes, we run two webapps on azure, migration was super easy (we were on amazon before)”

endorse · production · 3327 · 2013-02-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I've been using Azure lately for my .NET projects. MSFT has done a nice job with that platform”

endorse · personal · hughesdan · 2011-11-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Since we run on .Net and SQL Server it felt like the right choice. Microsoft has some really nice C# libraries”

endorse · production · vyrotek · 2010-12-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“We love C# and the Azure/VisualStudio integration is great.”

endorse · production · vyrotek · 2010-10-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“There only thing that checks of your list is Azure hosting.”

neutral · production · harshalizee · 2026-10-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“it allows us to use nothing but Microsoft packages for Azure and Bun, similar to how we were using Go”

neutral · production · Quothling · 2026-10-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“It spawns ephemeral EC2/Azure instances, which is a lot cheaper than the GitHub actions runners we used before that.”

neutral · production · Jarred · 2026-07-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Me and a friend had a minecraft server we'd built up over the years (hosted on my free azure msdn license credits).”

neutral · personal · Ntrails · 2026-07-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“our data stores are all self-managed on top of EC2/Azure, where performance and reliability are critical.”

neutral · production · scott_w · 2025-12-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“We switched completely to Microsoft/Azure a couple of years ago. My previous employer as well.”

neutral · production · 2 yr · bojan · 2025-11-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“We're 100% on Azure but so far there's no impact for us.”

neutral · production · basfo · 2025-10-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I inventoried what we use in 365 and Azure, and there's not a single thing we can't replace”

neutral · production · TheNewsIsHere · 2025-06-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“We migrated from postgres to ADX based on cost analysis done of the managed version on Azure.”

neutral · production · notTooFarGone · 2025-05-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“In my job, we use Azure, so it's not so bad since launching a cluster is mostly handled by Azure.”

neutral · production · Dedime · 2024-12-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I write some powershell for azure automation to help IT operations from time to time”

neutral · production · Quothling · 2024-12-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“We migrated our entire video library from Azure to Bunny. We went from paying over $2,500 in egress every month to about $200.”

neutral · production · guyfromfargo · 2024-11-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“That's not even how we migrated into Azure from on prem.”

neutral · production · devjab · 2024-10-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“my team is working right now on transitioning our data storage system to a different offering in Azure”

neutral · production · tartieret · 2024-10-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“we migrated from azure to AWS, and running a container on Fargate is significantly more work than Azure Container Apps”

neutral · production · maccard · 2024-02-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“we use the aws/azure because the model is much better”

neutral · production · Fortunevlad · 2023-12-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Copilot comes with our regular Azure and Office365 subscriptions”

neutral · production · devjab · 2023-12-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“we have moved our stack, initially built around Cloudflare, to Azure.”

neutral · production · epolanski · 2023-12-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I use Azure.”

neutral · production · danielovichdk · 2023-07-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“we use Azure and I'm pretty sure this is all out of the box stuff.”

neutral · production · bigger_cheese · 2022-12-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“we're now on dotnet 6 and kubernetes in azure and deploy with azure devops pipelinee.”

neutral · production · SeriousM · 2022-09-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Where I work our company policy was that Linux VMs in Azure were either RHEL or CentOS.”

neutral · production · frameset · 2022-08-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“learned a ton (this was when cloud was just becoming big, and we migrated everything to Azure).”

neutral · production · doktorhladnjak · 2022-04-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“we switched multiple times, from Azure to Google Cloud to AWS, chasing those startup credits.”

neutral · production · kevin_nisbet · 2022-04-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“for small migrations we order an IBM Cloud Mass Data Migration device and an Azure Data Box”

neutral · production · oneplane · 2022-02-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“we're only in azure because we're the public sector and already so in bed with Microsoft that it's the cheapest solution.”

neutral · production · moksly · 2021-12-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“There are at least 6 cloud providers I can name that I've used which run their own data centers”

neutral · production · george3d6 · 2021-12-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“my limited experience (in prod, with only like 50K a month bills) AWS and Azure are functionally identical.”

neutral · production · AcerbicZero · 2021-09-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“we completely disable destructive operations from our AWS/Azure Terraform user”

neutral · production · rjbwork · 2021-07-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“We have some supporting services on MS Azure.”

neutral · production · jedwhite · 2021-06-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“we run Azure and AWS as well as bare metal”

neutral · production · cygned · 2021-04-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I work on Azure now, but vendor lock in is real”

neutral · production · slaymaker1907 · 2021-01-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“we're using all the modern cloud tooling: Spring Boot, Azure, containers, K8S, Gitlab pipelines.”

neutral · production · twh270 · 2020-12-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“we set out to build a new Azure service from the ground up.”

neutral · production · inaseer · 2020-11-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“we migrated to Microsoft Azure when they opened two datacenters in our country. We didn't have to change any code”

neutral · production · speedgoose · 2020-07-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“We done a small PoC for Azure, and within a day we had a small cluster and one of our apps running.”

neutral · personal · dtech · 2020-06-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“This year I had first hand experience with Azure.”

neutral · production · 1 yr · devy · 2019-12-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“At my company, we use all major 3 clouds.”

neutral · production · tzury · 2019-12-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“For my day job we use Azure, and it gets the job done.”

neutral · production · elymar · 2018-12-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“we migrated GitLab.com from Microsoft Azure cloud to Google Cloud Platform (GCP)”

neutral · production · dsumenkovic · 2018-12-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“we run everything out of Azure, but I've noticed that for our various environments, but same applications, things are setup in an ad-hoc manner”

neutral · production · Bizarro · 2018-05-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“even MS Azure service APIs weren't supported - if you have to work with .NET avoid core”

neutral · production · rubber_duck · 2017-12-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I think the only things we use Azure for is the Directory, and Functions to run some PowerShell.”

neutral · production · 7ewis · 2017-11-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“When we migrated to Azure, we went with this and it worked reasonably well.”

neutral · production · HorizonXP · 2017-04-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Initially was on Azure. NPTEL (the platform...) then got GCP credits so we migrated it.”

neutral · production · tango12 · 2017-04-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I've been using it to set up a site-to-site VPN between my home network and my Azure VMs”

neutral · personal · lewisl9029 · 2015-07-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I've only taught the monkey how to perform basic Azure operations like restarting VMs and focused mostly on injecting failure into Azure Search components.”

neutral · production · henakama · 2015-07-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“We use it for server-side web development in Azure, iOS app with Xamarin, and Raspberry Pi Linux.”

neutral · production · jackfoxy · 2014-11-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“We did consider SignalR with the Service Bus backplane (we run on Azure).”

neutral · production · jconley · 2014-01-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“we run cloudant clusters in nearly 20 data centers globally on many different providers (ec2, softlayer, rackspace, joyent, azure, hostway, ...)”

neutral · production · mlmilleratmit · 2012-12-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“We run on Azure but I would love to evaluate other options.”

neutral · production · vyrotek · 2010-12-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?