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Shreyas Iyer

What’s the most important factor to consider when choosing a cloud provider?

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While AWS is often the de facto cloud provider due to their mature ecosystems and available credits, many businesses are now moving to other providers such as GCP, Azure, and DigitalOcean. I’m curious to hear from you, PH community, what factors you prioritize when selecting a cloud service provider. Excited to hear your thoughts and experiences on what has influenced your decision, and how you assess the various providers available.

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Preston Button
For me it’s a factor of speed, scalability, service, and cost. Of course other factors play a role, but those are the 4 biggest factors that affect my decisions.
Bruno Novais
Pricing is probably the deciding factor, since all clouds provides similar functionality.
Ivan Ralic
I really dislike AWS because their UX is intentionally bad to make you lose money. The same bad practices like with Amazon and Amazon Prime. Azure is great, scalable, secure, and Enterprises and Governments love it. There's also a Microsoft for Startups program that gives you way more than AWS, besides you get OpenAI credits and can even "buy" them with your Azure credits as well. From a tech perspective, if you are building really scalable systems you need to have your solution running in different Data Centers, here Azure is simply superior. I really want to have my solution grouped at a logical level and not a data center level, it doesn't make any sense to manage it that way.
Shreyas Iyer
@ralic The AWS UX is terribly bad—agree with you there. I'm not that familiar with Azure. I've used it a bit for requirements with SQL Server, but I will definitely give it a shot! Appreciate your thoughts!
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