No mention of privacy or security of data...

Kinda useful but there are some things missing/broken, is this open source? are you accepting PRs?

Try https://www.baamboozle.com/ remote learning teachers use it to make learning games and share their screen. And there's already lots of good content on it.

This is definitely human-level quality. In fact, the synthesized versions pronounce some words better than human. Kudos to MSFT! I think they've been longest in the game too...

edit; is the Nuance acquisition compounding yet?

This HAS to be a joke right?

This is so true to the T.

It doesn't work, typed in a few questions and i get no results.

yeah, possibly i should have waited a lot longer to do a 'Show HN' -- i wanted to see what people thought of the idea, in general.

there is an 'All questions' link:

https://asknoam.com/questions

i don't have a good way yet to do unpublished/draft work, and didn't want to crowd up the results with unfinished questions/answers.

but the main 'problem' is just effort -- tracking down the answers, documenting, transcribing text from video, deep-linking to books where appropriate/necessary/possible, etc.

i looked into this more -- yes, the search just sucks. for now.

you have to use only single keywords or small phrases to get results in most cases.

Exactly... most technical folk have no idea the kind of deep expertise MSFT has in selling software. Its why they are catching up to AWS. Its why they killed slack within a year. MSFT and Salesforce have the best biz ops and sales people to sell software and that itself is a huge overlooked moat that would probably take a decade to fully disrupt.

Wait can you please elaborate more? I have a site that gets a ton of traffic and my biggest bill is AWS cloudfront bandwidth... how can i reduce this using cloudflare?

Switch out Cloudfront for Cloudflare. Or put it in front of it, if that's what floats your boat.

This list is biased, its missing Azure products like Azure Data Explorer, of which AWS/GCP has no alternative (afaik).

Can you not use Bigquery or Aws Redshift? On the microsoft blog posts it seems Azure Data Explorer is more price efficient, though I don't quite understand besides that is it doing something special compared to microsoft's existing offerings?

ADX is an extremely good timeseries data store. Integrates very easily without hassles into EventHub , Blobstore etc, and also has a very intuitive query language. (Though we could say AWS product integrate with Kinesis / S3 into RedShift). Needless to say a lot of nice features like Geo queries , extremely good support make it really good!

Azure was not as good as GCP in terms of data offerings , but with ADX and CosmosDB etc is really getting par with other clouds really well.

Coupled with strong Azure IoT , these data products may be a real winner

Yeah but...then I’d have to use azure.

The last time I was subjected to azure, I wanted to drive a stake through my head out of sheer frustration.

Curious to know about your experience with Cosmos though, when I last looked it was eye wateringly expensive and reports were that performance was...slow at best.

It is PaaS , you are locked down (just like a lot of other solutions.) The biggest problem we had with other no-SQL databases (we were high on interop and started with HBase / Phoenix ) is that over time the storage costs and operational costs get out of hand especially if we do not have a good data archival part (sometimes limited by legality as well). As for your frustrating experience , the mileage varies. We were happy with it , so no comments on that one. For cosmos , we used it for extremely "hot"/"warm" data that was aggregated and made available readily for applications to use. We had reserved instances (big on Azure) , so we keep things in check that way.

> This table lists generally available Google Cloud services and maps them to similar offerings in Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure.

The title of this post implies otherwise: Compare AWS and Azure Services to Google Cloud