Add ZIP release to GitHub releases too

[o-l-a-v]

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Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

The MSI installer is (way too) slow, upgrade from v2.59 to v2.60 took 15-20 minutes.

ZIP releases already exists after #27911, but are not added to GitHub releases. Instead can be downloaded from:

• https://azcliprod.blob.core.windows.net/zip/azure-cli-2.60.0-x64.zip

Describe the solution you'd like

Add ZIP release to GitHub releases too.

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[yonzhan]

Thank you for opening this issue, we will look into it.

[o-l-a-v]

One more reason to add the ZIP to GitHub releases: Download speed from your Azure Storage Account is much slower than from GitHub.

Example for latest MSI x86:

• Azure Storage Account: https://azcliprod.blob.core.windows.net/msi/azure-cli-2.60.0.msi
• GitHub: https://github.com/Azure/azure-cli/releases/download/azure-cli-2.60.0/azure-cli-2.60.0.msi

Downloading from GitHub takes 1-3 seconds on 1/1gbps fiber, while downloading from Storage Account takes ~60 seconds. Geolocation might affect this. azcliprod.blob.core.windows.net seems to reside in some US Azure data center. FQDN resolves to a IP in California, so West US?

Because of this huge difference in download speed: Please add x64 MSI release ( https://azcliprod.blob.core.windows.net/msi/azure-cli-2.60.0-x64.msi ) to GitHub releases too.

[jiasli]

Download speed from your Azure Storage Account is much slower than from GitHub.

This is because the storage account https://azcliprod.blob.core.windows.net/ is not cached by a CDN. This feature request is tracked by #19447.

[o-l-a-v]

Why not piggyback some existing MS system to speed up downloads, rather than creating and maintaining Azure infrastructure just for Azure CLI? Why not use GitHub?

[bebound]

zip has been available since 2.63.0.
https://github.com/Azure/azure-cli/releases/tag/azure-cli-2.63.0