Azure might be great in a year or so, but it makes me uneasy as is. Some of the services are great, but a lot of them are pretty fragmented. I've had so many instances where our billing/usage data has just "disappeared" for a few days, undocumented changes have been made to the formats of reports/exports/APIs, and official documentation is plain wrong that I just can't recommend Azure to anyone. Not to mention they have the most expensive infrastructure costs out of the major players (even with an EA and decent monetary commitment); their premium for Windows licensing is the lowest by far though (not surprising), so it does end up being a cheaper option for super windows heavy shops though.
Although I am quite optimistic about Azure, GCP seems like the best bet at the moment. I think of factors like Reliability, performance, availability, cost and longevity.
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Azure might be great in a year or so, but it makes me uneasy as is. Some of the services are great, but a lot of them are pretty fragmented. I've had so many instances where our billing/usage data has just "disappeared" for a few days, undocumented changes have been made to the formats of reports/exports/APIs, and official documentation is plain wrong that I just can't recommend Azure to anyone. Not to mention they have the most expensive infrastructure costs out of the major players (even with an EA and decent monetary commitment); their premium for Windows licensing is the lowest by far though (not surprising), so it does end up being a cheaper option for super windows heavy shops though.
Although I am quite optimistic about Azure, GCP seems like the best bet at the moment. I think of factors like Reliability, performance, availability, cost and longevity.