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We're a small B2B company. For VMs, AWS doesn't have a data center in our country (Norway) which is important due to data storage regulations, nobody sane picks Google for anything they need to rely on... so it's Azure or some local players.

We've tried the latter, twice, they got bought and support quality tanked both times. We don't want to manage hardware yet, so...

Also, customers want MSSQL, and managed MSSQL is nice since it's trivial to scale up and down with the needs of the customer.

Started using their other services like Service Bus, Blob Storage and Application Insights. We're using .Net so integration is quite simple.

It wasn't my call, but there weren't that many great alternatives from what I can see.

> customers want MSSQL

Why would they want that when PostgreSQL exists? That's like saying customers "want" Oracle databases despite the existence of this post:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18442941

Integrated in-memory tables, columnstore analytics, etc…

Postgres has its strengths, but so does MSSQL.

Unfortunately you don't get to choose the database that the very expensive canned software the company bought years ago runs on.

That's more of a "I'm forced to use this thing against my will because I'm locked in" situation rather than "I want to use this thing".

This comes from the large customers who still wants on-prem.

They already run it due to other software than ours, so their IT is already familiar and has permissions, auditing etc in place.

> nobody sane picks Google for anything they need to rely on..

In the case of GCP this is untrue.

> We're using .Net so integration is quite simple.

This is the reason for most deployments. They are MS shops so the go with the MS Cloud.

> In the case of GCP this is untrue.

You're probably right, but anything that isn't core to their ad business seems highly risky to rely on long-term.

I certainly wouldn't risk recommending them.

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