Azure is now bigger, faster, more open, and more secure
Bigger, faster, more open, more secure ... what's missing from this list?<p>Oh, that's right, how about more uptime?<p><pre><code>  Provider               Outages  Total Downtime
  ---------------------- -------- --------------
  Amazon EC2                  12     2.01 hours
  Google Compute Engine       65     3.27 hours
  Microsoft Azure VMs        102    42.80 hours
</code></pre>
Source: <a href="https://cloudharmony.com/status-1year-of-compute-group-by-regions-and-provider" rel="nofollow">https://cloudharmony.com/status-1year-of-compute-group-by-re...</a><p>And this doesn't show the other Microsoft cloud services that have even worse reliability.<p>At my company we invested a lot of time trying to make Azure Service Bus and Visual Studio Online work. Both were so dreadfully unreliable as to be unusable.