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Comment by usr1106 | Hacker News Reader

Based on Azure... Isn't that one of the more unreliable clouds in the market?

Edit: https://assets.theregister.com/2026/04/04/azure_talent_exodu... The blog post that story is based on was also on HN.

Edit2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47616242 (1297 points)

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Azure is most unreliable for me because of how terrible the UI is, plus ipv6[0]. Agents translating natural language queries/actions to Azure api calls is a lifesaver.

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29327773

Define unreliable? Azure has a 99.97% historical uptime, AWS at 99.95%. Azure is #2 in market share, right beyond AWS. Engineer anecdotes about internal strife doesn’t equate to external reliability. I’m sure you can find AWS engineers complaining about AWS, or GCP, or insert company. (Also, Microsoft owns Azure and GitHub, so what did you expect?)

It was a question, not a statement. Yes, you can find complaints about every company. I have never used Azure, but remember people complaining like in a sibling comment. I have used AWS for 15 years, some years even a lot. It's mostly working, although I also have my complaints. They have billed me for a VM after sending an email that it has probably failed. And yes, it was not working correctly. As we speak they have locked me out of my private account, not particularly important, and support can't tell me why. They are still billing. Nothing really surprising, the cloud is not your computer. And hyperscalers have no customer support worth the name unless you pay $$$.

What do those uptime numbers tell? For 95% of the problems I had the status page has no information.

Where and how are you getting that reliability data? And what is it for? All services? A region? Everything averaged out? I know companies embarking on multi million dollar projects to add a backup identity provider to EntraID because it's that unreliable and it costs them money every time it's not working.

Azure was the cloud that had all global auth rely on a single DC in Texas (we learned when cooling failed there), and didn't have availability zones in most regions until not that long ago. They've also had a number of trivial cross tenant exploits. No, two us-east-1 outages that had minal global impact isn't comparable, we're talking about all auth for all of Azure using a single DC, not a region of 5 DCs having the control plane for global AWS services.

Neither security nor reliability are a priority. It's by far the worst big cloud provider, and it's not even remotely close.

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