I am finding "cloud" to be a pleasant experience at the moment.
We are building a B2B service in Azure using Az Functions & Az SQL Database as the primary components. That's about it. We figured out you can "abuse" Az Functions to serve all manner of MVC-style web app (in addition to API-style apps) by using simple PHP-style templating code. Sprinkle in AAD authentication and B2B collaboration and you have a really powerful, secure/MFA auth solution without much suffering. Things like role enforcement is as simple as taking a dep on ClaimsPrincipal in the various functions.
The compliance offerings are really nice too. Turns out if you use the compliant services without involving a bunch of complicated 3rd party bullshit, you wind up with something that is also approximately compliant. For those of us in finance, this is a really important factor. 10 person startups don't have much bandwidth for auditing in-house stacks every year. If you do everything "the Azure way", it is feasible for you to grant your partners (or their auditors) access to your tenant for inspection and expect that they could find their own way around. If you do it "my way" you better be prepared to get pulled into every goddamn meeting.
I am starting to wonder if not all clouds are made equal anymore. We also have some footprint in AWS (we used to be 100% AWS), but it's really only for domain registration and S3 buckets these days. GCP doesn't even fly on my radar. I've only ever see one of our partners using it.
We are building a B2B service in Azure using Az Functions & Az SQL Database as the primary components. That's about it. We figured out you can "abuse" Az Functions to serve all manner of MVC-style web app (in addition to API-style apps) by using simple PHP-style templating code. Sprinkle in AAD authentication and B2B collaboration and you have a really powerful, secure/MFA auth solution without much suffering. Things like role enforcement is as simple as taking a dep on ClaimsPrincipal in the various functions.
The compliance offerings are really nice too. Turns out if you use the compliant services without involving a bunch of complicated 3rd party bullshit, you wind up with something that is also approximately compliant. For those of us in finance, this is a really important factor. 10 person startups don't have much bandwidth for auditing in-house stacks every year. If you do everything "the Azure way", it is feasible for you to grant your partners (or their auditors) access to your tenant for inspection and expect that they could find their own way around. If you do it "my way" you better be prepared to get pulled into every goddamn meeting.
I am starting to wonder if not all clouds are made equal anymore. We also have some footprint in AWS (we used to be 100% AWS), but it's really only for domain registration and S3 buckets these days. GCP doesn't even fly on my radar. I've only ever see one of our partners using it.