Windows Azure

[roguemat]

I'm busy doing performance improvements in Pocket Meme ( http://www.windowsphone.com/en-US/apps/b39dc91a-8151-4621-82ce-5e7e0ae45e40 ).
One of the the ways is a ton of caching and a CDN which I am using Windows Azure for. I've never used Azure until tonight, but besides their horridly confusing costs, it's going pretty well, and it seems really awesome.

I just wanted to find out what experiences other devs have had using it. And if anyone has used both AWS and Azure, how they compare?

 

[stricken]

AWS wins hands down. Not going into why... but just get an account and see for yourself.

 

[roguemat]

AWS wins hands down. Not going into why... but just get an account and see for yourself.

Well, having not run into any problem, and not finding anything I can't do that I want to (this is a smallish project), it's going to be rather difficult to find that out by trying it.

EDIT: Actually I have encountered something that's a bit annoying. The deploy times are quite long. Not that that is really a problem though because the emulator runs locally fine.

EDIT2: Scott Hanselman saw a discussion between me and some other guys and replied: "that will get WAY faster soon. Way." (https://twitter.com/#!/WithinRafael/status/191191988228456449)

 

[Wovenhand]

I've been trying to sign up for Azure but never get the text verification code.