<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mcaravey</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve been using Azure in various forms since beta days. Back then it felt very startup-like with half baked software and updates coming all the time. That is still how their new stuff is delivered, but I&amp;#x27;ve rarely had issues with anything that is out of preview.&lt;p&gt;Here what really sold Azure to me, the various companies I&amp;#x27;ve worked for, etc. Azure allows you to do just about anything these days, and you can mix &amp;amp; match all sorts of different pieces of tech as you see fit, and its all the in one place. It&amp;#x27;s quite important for businesses that I have, for example, probably half a dozen ways to open a connection into my corporate network in order for my front end Azure-hosted API can access some ancient database. Microsoft knows how to make Azure appeal to businesses, since that is their bread and butter.&lt;p&gt;One last thing: where I currently work we have been running or entire infrastructure on Azure since day 1. We have to architect our applications for the cloud, but the benefits have always been amazing. Whenever we get bigger customers that slam our infrastructure with traffic, we just push a button (or automatically) and we get more machines&amp;#x2F;bandwidth&amp;#x2F;storage, etc. Not once has there been feelings of regret for choosing Azure in the company. It&amp;#x27;s a safe bet.</text><parent_chain><item><author>raphinou</author><text>My experience with azure is subpar : slow,  deploys failing for no clear reason, terrible ui. Do you have bettee experience with it?</text></item><item><author>old-gregg</author><text>I am actually getting more and more impressed with Azure. The rate of maturity of their offering is really impressive, and the number of world-wide regions is insane.&lt;p&gt;Wile we&amp;#x27;re primarily still AWS users, but we&amp;#x27;re hosting free global tools (check out &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;teleconsole.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;teleconsole.com&lt;/a&gt;) on Azure for low latency.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>OpenAI and Microsoft</title><url>https://openai.com/blog/openai-and-microsoft/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>m_fayer</author><text>I mostly use Azure for hobby&amp;#x2F;small&amp;#x2F;exploratory work, but I&amp;#x27;m generally quite happy with it, sticking mostly to their PAAS offerings, and a Linux VM here and there. I never touch their UIs, which are terrible indeed. But the CLI tools do everything and I&amp;#x27;m pretty happy with those.</text><parent_chain><item><author>raphinou</author><text>My experience with azure is subpar : slow,  deploys failing for no clear reason, terrible ui. Do you have bettee experience with it?</text></item><item><author>old-gregg</author><text>I am actually getting more and more impressed with Azure. The rate of maturity of their offering is really impressive, and the number of world-wide regions is insane.&lt;p&gt;Wile we&amp;#x27;re primarily still AWS users, but we&amp;#x27;re hosting free global tools (check out &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;teleconsole.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;teleconsole.com&lt;/a&gt;) on Azure for low latency.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>OpenAI and Microsoft</title><url>https://openai.com/blog/openai-and-microsoft/</url></story>