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Microsoft Azure had already (Edit: actually three) datacentres in India:

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/regions/

This completely confirms the region as a technological hub moving forward.

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Microsoft Azure had already (Edit: actually three) datacentres in India:

India is Microsoft tech heavy (things change though).

Funny story. A few years back, I got a call from one of their Azure BizDev reps. I told them I was happy they supported Linux and the guy wanted to hang up so fast...lol!

Point of fact: An AWS region is actually more than one DC. Mumbai has two availability zones which implies at least two DCs.

Also, Azure India regions are not generally available:

"The India regions are available to volume licensing customers and partners with a local enrollment in India. The India regions will open to direct online Azure subscriptions in 2016."

Slightly OT but Azure is such a better product than AWS. I was really skeptical because Microsoft has a legacy of doing an absolute shit job at all their copycat products. I happened into some credit and gave it a try during some downtime and was extremely pleasantly surprised. It's as if somebody applied a 2016 interface and usability to AWS.

Are you kidding me? I find azures interface to be completely horrible. AWS interface isn't great but azures interface is no better.

GCE on the other hand has a very nice interface.

New redesign is atrocious, but I really liked their old design.

GCE has an interface that is painfully slow at times though. It's a complete slouch compared to the speed of the AWS interface.

Have you tried to leverage Azure IaaS, or Azure Blob at any scale?

Their third-party mysql db offerings are atrocious, price-wise.

It seems you are just talking about the UI of the web interface to the services. I agree this is an important feature that AWS doesn't do so well with. But in the end it's also has pretty much nothing to do with the underlying functionality of the services themselves.

My use case (VDI) might be slightly different than a lot of others but it's not just the UI.

I think this might be a case of "beauty in the eye of the beer holder". Azure's web UI (both the old one and the new one) is an abomination of the sort I've come to expect from MSFT design teams.

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