I’ve decided to move from Azure to AWS EC2 for hosting. To be honest the service at Microsoft Azure has been lackluster at best. No support and crappy performance. There are times when the machine is just simply unresponsive. AWS T2.Small instance size is pretty snappy and around the same money. In addition, Amazon offers a nice RDS service which includes backup and management. Yes, this increases my hosting cost, but it comes with better performance. My CDN is hosted on Cloudfront anyway, so hosting the server in EC2 makes sense.
Amazon RDS is not easy to setup. The first time I configured it a couple of weeks ago I had to invoke Amazon support to figure out which security setting was messed up. I wound up leveraging that today to finish the migration.
