Azure is now bigger, faster, more open, and more secure
Bigger, faster, more open, more secure ... what's missing from this list?Oh, that's right, how about more uptime?  Provider               Outages  Total Downtime
  ---------------------- -------- --------------
  Amazon EC2                  12     2.01 hours
  Google Compute Engine       65     3.27 hours
  Microsoft Azure VMs        102    42.80 hours

Source: https://cloudharmony.com/status-1year-of-compute-group-by-re...And this doesn't show the other Microsoft cloud services that have even worse reliability.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.