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I can’t even fathom it myself. I begrudgingly spent a month on azure as I worked for an MSFT partner. This was to establish if it was the way to go. It wasn’t. It was a friction filled mess.

AWS slowly crept in because there was no entry barrier, no magic Harry Potter spells to get anything working and it actually worked and stayed working.

Now I went back to azure to see what has changed Q3 last year and it was the same “eating sawdust” experience. Literally everything is clunky.

When it comes to these providers, time is money, possibly more so than worrying about the instances. Azure costs a lot more in human attention.

AWS is not perfect though. CloudFormation quite frankly sucks balls but there’s enough interest and so little friction that there are lots of third party things that work well with it.

Azure, not so much. It’s a leper colony.