[outworlder]

> It's just a flat lie

No it is not! Azure is not even in the same ballpark. APIs fail randomly, instances take a random amount of time to come up(sometimes similar to AWS, sometimes double digits) services are poorly integrated, lots of weird constraints and surprising behavior(their load balancers are nonsensical), lack of AZs (and support for them) in many regions, etc.

Can you make your stuff work on Azure? Sure you can. Is that a good experience? No way.

This is probably what people are referring to. The underlying tech may not be horrible, but the user experience is.