[NotANaN]

I wonder how much of the increasing success of Azure is creditable to its deep integration with Visual Studio Code.

[oaiey]

There is no deep integration. Some plugins yes. It is driven by that motivation. I use VS Code daily and never read the word Azure there.

My opinion on your question: Not much. The interesting question is: How much the good will (VS Code, .NET Core, Linux support,...) of the last year's pay out