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Discussion on: Azure Free Account? Is it really free?

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For me with small rather private usage there are too many shortcomings leading to high and costly administrative risks:

  • The always free that requires at least one paid subscription (so it is not really free)
  • You cannot cap your spending (no one want to pay unlimited/unjustified price just because someone started to ddos you for fun, we rather have the service stops)
  • PaaS and SaaS have no warranty about the version you can lock (no one want to be forced upgrading once a service is going out of support)

I am a professional developer, so when I develop for home/leisure I need an easy and worry free solution. Now that a 40 USD raspberry pi supports docker, I cannot justify anymore to hosts my solutions on the cloud. There are too many administrative risks with the cloud and I already lost countless hours with Google end of support service or Amazon sudden jumping fee, I don't want to go again on the cloud route with another copy cat (administratively speaking). When you are late to the game, you should be better and address those elementary problems !