I use Azure all the time (app services, storage, cloud services,VMs, SQL, CDN etc) and almost never run into this issue. Can you share some example on what you mean?
I use all that stuff and constantly run into it, are you using it in anger?
Here's a few I can remember off the top of my head:
- A (relatively) huge 6ms lag between the website and the DB
- One (random) site will mysteriously max out on memory on app-pool startup and take all the others down
- Their scheduler has no concept of timezones
- Their scheduler uses your local time when setting up the job, but UTC for other parts (this has been an open issue for over a year I think)
- Files will get mysteriously locked in deployments and the deployment process will silently fail
- Deployments will suddenly take an absolute age for no reason
- The entire admin UI will slow to an absolute crawl for hours on end
- Some admin tasks always claim they've failed, even though they've succeeded
- Their API wrapper is just wrong on almost every level
Add on top of that the worse management UI I've ever had to deal with and it makes Azure very painful to use at times. Some-one thought nesting menus in a standardised format was a good idea. It wasn't. Everything is fairly terribly named too. Want to see how your deployments doing? That's under "Deployment Options".
Performance is also dogshit compared to the cost, my 4 year old laptop is faster than their "premium" offerings.
No I'm using it happily. We don't use the scheduler and create new deployment slots when deploying (which maybe prevents locking issues). Sometimes I experience oddness in Azure portal and has to refresh but has never had it slow down. As for SQL latency it's been insignificant to us so I'm not sure if what we experience is better or worse than yours.
Portal i agree is partly confusing/messy but we set up things once and then do deploys via CI infrastructure. And even the initial setup we try to automate using PS instead (to make it reproducible).
When it comes to pricing I agree, but my laptop does not do multi-datacenter so well.
Im not questioning anything you say of course. Maybe I've gone blind or don't see the issues as critical as you, or maybe I'm just more lucky.
