5 Things Azure Does Better Than AWS

[@edandersen]

Please consider subscribing if you want more Azure or AWS content on the channel 🙏 Lets me know what you are interested in 👍

[@kapsowe]

Please make another comparison for GCP

[@TommyMito]

Thank you very much, I would like you to make a more in-depth comparative video between Azure and AWS, comparing more services and showing a list of pros and cons, taking into account whether your initial environment is already Azure or AWS.

[@shivaraj17cm]

We very much require a dedicated playlist on your channel for the five Azure certifications: AZ-900, AZ-104, AZ-204, AZ-400, and AZ-305. By viewing each of these, anyone should be capable of passing the corresponding Microsoft exam.

[@edandersen]

flattered! I have the azure devops expert one

[@Euquila]

One thing to note with azure storage (same is true for google storage) is that the folders you see there are kind of a "hack" in that the folder is part of the filename. i believe for most use-cases this doesn't matter anyways

[@edandersen]

You can enable hierarchical storage on Azure which enables proper folders. That's what was enabled in the vid

[@MadalinIgnisca]

What is the difference between Azure open-air GPT4 and using directly OpenAI’s api? I have been using directly OpenAI api for more than a year and want to know the differences and advantages if any.

[@edandersen]

advantage is it’s in your private azure environment, disadvantage it’s missing a few features (retrieval tool for example)

[@Yavin4]

Not 100% sure, but with Azure open-air GPT4, you can use your data created using Azure search. Again, I could be wrong, and I'm open to being corrected.

[@dpbt14]

Nice one Ted! Very educational

[@MrXlee1967]

Hi I really like your teaching style and can see the effort you're putting in. Have you thought about making tutorials? They seem to get good views. I'm a total beginner, and what would you recommend to start learning? I am learning front end html and css, then plan on javascript (to get into tech) and then c#. Not interested in working for banks or galaxy brains expected jobs, sadly don't have one.

[@edandersen]

I'm not really into full on tutorial courses, plenty of those about. Microsoft themselves make the best C# and .NET tutorials, cannot really compete with their staff on payroll. Looks like you have a decent plan! Best of luck.

[@MrXlee1967]

@@edandersen thanks I will take a look at the Microsoft c# courses once I've learnt some javascript. I tried the Google courses and found them poor. Your videos are of a much higher teaching quality, perhaps Microsoft could hire you.

[@ramonpereira4460]

That's pretty nice indeed. I never even thought you could have a 5$ SQL server running. I just have one complaint about Microsoft Managed SQL instances: When you create a read replica for that database, it spawns a different credential for it. So far so good, that is a design choice. One day I had to create one for our production database that had millions of transactions happening, so that we could offload the read load to it. Created it, got the read replica hostname, tested on my IDE to see if I could access the database using the login & password from the *main* replica, the *read* replica hostname, and it worked. I thought everything was alright until I saw that the CPU usage was 0% at the read replica. Turns out that Azure chose to make the *read* replica hostname resolve to the same endpoint as the *main* replica. The only difference was the login & password - which would then enable you to access the *read* replica. That cost the company I was at a lot of money that day.

[@thatryanp]

po ta toe Would be nice to see Postgres hosting comparison, as it would make complete sense for MS to subsidize SQL Server starter hosting to boost adoption.

[@zeus783]

Great comparison, that's why I prefer Azure .. Quite funny though! But always a pain explaining that AWS is "costly" to a client who already has a subscribed AWS plan!

[@pxnchx93]

How is your experience developing for Azure on a Mac? Do you use VS Code or what?

[@edandersen]

I do most dev in a Windows VM, but use Mac as the host and maybe for simple stuff.

[@pxnchx93]

@@edandersen Parallels?

[@edandersen]

@@pxnchx93 Sometimes.

[@MartinLiversage]

JetBrains Rider is available on Mac. It's not free but in my opinion it has the best .NET development experience. It also has an addon for Azure so you can interact with your resources. I haven't used it a lot so I don't know if it's lacking, great or just adequate.

[@jaysenossai7165]

@@MartinLiversage JetBrains Rider is perfect for .NET Development