I'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've rarely had issues with anything that is out of preview.
Here what really sold Azure to me, the various companies I've worked for, etc. Azure allows you to do just about anything these days, and you can mix & match all sorts of different pieces of tech as you see fit, and its all the in one place. It'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.
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/bandwidth/storage, etc. Not once has there been feelings of regret for choosing Azure in the company. It's a safe bet.
Here what really sold Azure to me, the various companies I've worked for, etc. Azure allows you to do just about anything these days, and you can mix & match all sorts of different pieces of tech as you see fit, and its all the in one place. It'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.
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/bandwidth/storage, etc. Not once has there been feelings of regret for choosing Azure in the company. It's a safe bet.