Thanks. It’s a separate table-top in my garage now. You can’t see it, but that’s the garage door behind me with a backdrop fabric attached to it. My actual desk is along the wall of the garage to my right. Since the Tesla is too long to fit in the garage I wasn’t too bummed about making the garage an office/studio.
You forgot to mention that Microsoft has a Special Ops group that spend their days inventing ways of making pricing sound reasonable until you're billed - that is an art noone but Microsoft knows how to perform. Let's take VMs / Compute. AWS says you can have a free tier VM if you accept some restriction and stick to usage limits you're good to go. On AWS that'll cost you nothing. Unless you go outside the limits. You try the same with Azure "Always Free Services" and try to create a VM and as you land on the configuration page you see a preconfigured machine chosen at $5.99 and $6.99 per month (the others are more expensive), the list you can choose from is limited and no mention of the free tier - of course an Azure engineer will appear from behind the curtains and will tell you that if you hold your left ear with your right hand thumb and middle finger while bend 90 degrees backwards and gargling a mouth full of water you could easily find the free tier VMs. Do me a favour, record a session and show me, who's been an Azure customer for years, the following two things: 1 - How to set up an Always Free Linux VM with every restriction that it comes with for free (remember my 12 months free account expired years ago.) - the scenario is simple, I just want to create a VM and try an idea for couple of hours - for free as in beer as in $0. I can show you how to do that in under 5 minutes and 3~4 steps in AWS. 2 - Having made a mistake of not changing my country of residence when signing up for 12 months free account when the 12 months expired I wanted to enter my debit card details to move into Pay-As-You-Go model. Simple you'd think. Oh, no - I couldn't because Azure would only accept a US issued card details (because of my mistake of not specifying that I live in the UK in the first place). I asked Azure and a very helpful support fellow suggested I use a different email account which I had to - I guess he didn't think that idea would cause havoc with my office 365 account. So this also tells you about the shambolic state of Active Directory. I now have two IDs in AD with two emails for two Microsoft Cloud Services, which causes no end of hassle when I want to use office 365 and Azure Services at the same time. Please explain to me how an AD system which we're meant to trust needs two separate emails for the identification of the same individual (not a corporate - please leave corporate senario out) and I'll buy you a crate of our finest beer - and will be become the biggest Azure fan. I can show you how to do that in minutes in AWS. Azure is backed by Microsoft's fantastic suite of software and naturally is excellent in SaaS and getting seriously good at PaaS (notwithstanding the AD scenario above) but let's not kid ourselves - when it comes to IaaS, Azure has a a long, long way to go.
I am a fan of azure because I have my company mostly on Microsoft. Some things specifically dealing with the common data service or dataverse whatever we call it now. But don't tell anyone.....all our key important apis are on Google cloud. Sorry! Cloud run is just awesome.
It’s all good. I plan on doing a comparison with Google Cloud Platform at some point here soon when I get back to making more videos. I’ve had to use Google for a personal project due to some restrictions that were present in both Azure and AWS.
Loving the desk upgrade!
Thanks. It’s a separate table-top in my garage now. You can’t see it, but that’s the garage door behind me with a backdrop fabric attached to it. My actual desk is along the wall of the garage to my right. Since the Tesla is too long to fit in the garage I wasn’t too bummed about making the garage an office/studio.
Quality vid dude!! Did you change mics??
Yeah. I still have my Yeti for when I’m at my computer but the main mic I use now is a Rode NTG4+.
You forgot to mention that Microsoft has a Special Ops group that spend their days inventing ways of making pricing sound reasonable until you're billed - that is an art noone but Microsoft knows how to perform. Let's take VMs / Compute. AWS says you can have a free tier VM if you accept some restriction and stick to usage limits you're good to go. On AWS that'll cost you nothing. Unless you go outside the limits.
You try the same with Azure "Always Free Services" and try to create a VM and as you land on the configuration page you see a preconfigured machine chosen at $5.99 and $6.99 per month (the others are more expensive), the list you can choose from is limited and no mention of the free tier - of course an Azure engineer will appear from behind the curtains and will tell you that if you hold your left ear with your right hand thumb and middle finger while bend 90 degrees backwards and gargling a mouth full of water you could easily find the free tier VMs.
Do me a favour, record a session and show me, who's been an Azure customer for years, the following two things:
1 - How to set up an Always Free Linux VM with every restriction that it comes with for free (remember my 12 months free account expired years ago.) - the scenario is simple, I just want to create a VM and try an idea for couple of hours - for free as in beer as in $0. I can show you how to do that in under 5 minutes and 3~4 steps in AWS.
2 - Having made a mistake of not changing my country of residence when signing up for 12 months free account when the 12 months expired I wanted to enter my debit card details to move into Pay-As-You-Go model. Simple you'd think. Oh, no - I couldn't because Azure would only accept a US issued card details (because of my mistake of not specifying that I live in the UK in the first place). I asked Azure and a very helpful support fellow suggested I use a different email account which I had to - I guess he didn't think that idea would cause havoc with my office 365 account. So this also tells you about the shambolic state of Active Directory. I now have two IDs in AD with two emails for two Microsoft Cloud Services, which causes no end of hassle when I want to use office 365 and Azure Services at the same time. Please explain to me how an AD system which we're meant to trust needs two separate emails for the identification of the same individual (not a corporate - please leave corporate senario out) and I'll buy you a crate of our finest beer - and will be become the biggest Azure fan. I can show you how to do that in minutes in AWS.
Azure is backed by Microsoft's fantastic suite of software and naturally is excellent in SaaS and getting seriously good at PaaS (notwithstanding the AD scenario above) but let's not kid ourselves - when it comes to IaaS, Azure has a a long, long way to go.
I am a fan of azure because I have my company mostly on Microsoft. Some things specifically dealing with the common data service or dataverse whatever we call it now. But don't tell anyone.....all our key important apis are on Google cloud. Sorry!
Cloud run is just awesome.
It’s all good. I plan on doing a comparison with Google Cloud Platform at some point here soon when I get back to making more videos. I’ve had to use Google for a personal project due to some restrictions that were present in both Azure and AWS.
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Lol. Congrats!