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Asked: 2026-05-25T22:54:25+00:00

I am evaluating Windows Azure and Google App Engine. Personally I prefer Windows Azure

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I am evaluating Windows Azure and Google App Engine.

Personally I prefer Windows Azure as I have been a C# developer for years. However, I do understand Azure will be too expensive for a start up company.

Could anyone let me know any successful Azure based website or web services?

Any opinion about Azure VS GAE is welcome.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Google can give you the answer to who is using Azure and how they are using it.
    Whatever answer is given today will not neccessarily be accurate when this post is read so it’s a bit of a time lock. Boeing is using Azure. Microsoft is using Azure. Azure is even using Azure.

    I disagree that Azure is anymore expensive than any other PaaS offering.
    And I find Azure as a PaaS offering to be “bizarrely” less expensive than IaaS offering from the likes of Rackspace etc.

    I say “bizarrely” because we get the hardware and the platform for less than what Rackspace charge us for just the hardware. I find it’s very reasonably priced so long as you read the not so fine print….

    i.e. watch out for part hour charging and know that deployed = paying whether the service is turned on or not.

    I’ve found GAE to be similar in cost. Which metric are you particularly interested in?

    I also dont agree that it’s too expensive for a startup.
    I can get a 2 small instance with a 1 Gb database and CDN use for about $130NZD a month.
    That’s peanuts when you look at the amount of grunt sitting in behind that… specially when you consider you can run multiple domains off a single hosted service.

    Azure vs GAE is IHMO really just a developmental/deployment difference in the stack.
    I’m an MS developer and I can ride my skillset into Azure very easily.

    There’s so much info and so many introductory videos available on it’s use. Check out the latest build conference videos and a series called Cloud Cover on channel 9).

    You can get up and running on Azure in a basic developer test sense in half a day to a day. It’s a really very well thought out offering IMHO.

    So there you go, a very general answer to a very general question. 😉

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