I recently had the opportunity to catch up with two very good friends, Richard Campbell and Carl Franklin on their show .NET Rocks to talk about... well a lot about Azure. What it was, how it grew up, and what it is now. Of course I also got to mention Global Auzre, which is always nice and the right thing to do when you have a BIG audience.

It's 2024, how is Azure doing? (Listen to the episode here.)

It is pretty amazing how much Azure has grown over the years. It is now an unruly teenager which we all depend on to help get our job done! OH MY! ;~) Starting out from only eight data centers globally, Azure today is – nobody knows exactly how many. The number of services in the platform has sky rocketed from a handful to hundreds. I can only immagine what it must feel like to see Azure for the first time today. My perspective is long but it can never be seen with fresh eyes. Azure is a wonderous place, and also something that needs to evolve much further in some cases. AI will do an interesting number on Azure services for sure. Also, we discuss how a few get the cloud wrong, and decide – sometimes publicly – to back out of the cloud again. Experto crede; they’re not doing their part of the job, and they are not doing it right, with the wrong in-house skills, and not the right strategy, if they cannot make Azure work. It is a shared responsibility, and by (publicly) failing at it, they have declared they did not do their homework!

In the episode we covered a lot of ground, including but not limited to: Azure Migrate, Azure Advisor, and Azure Monitor.