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		vosper on Feb 9, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: $500k of Azure credit for YC startups Sure, but in practice if you have any complexity in your stack then it's going to be a PITA to from Azure to AWS (or vice-versa). If you're just running instances then maybe it's not too much work - though you're still going to have to think about backup / restore, access control, autoscaling (maybe), cost tracking / allocation, etc... I'm sure Microsoft are banking on a profitable percentage of YC companies becoming so wedded to that Azure systems that the opportunity cost of switching to AWS is too high. Edit: Typo

mikermcneil on Feb 10, 2015 [–]

Looks like Azure has a PaaS now though-- I mean it's no heroku, but as far as I can tell it's working.

nbevans on Feb 10, 2015 | [–]

Azure was always PaaS... they added IaaS much later.

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