[startupguy1337]

> The other part is we got a lot of Azure Credits when we joined the [Microsoft for Startups]

Wow, Microsoft must have really drowned you with free credits to choose Azure. We also tried Azure 2.5 years ago when my small team (3 founding devs) started with our startup, but after 6 months of constant problems, broken services, outages, and completely out of the blue unexplained service failures we had to give up. We wasted a lot of engineering time on bending our app to Azure's needs and still had issues. We eventually migrated to Google Cloud and hadn't had any problems since then. I am not kidding, the first 6 months we must have spent at least 70% of our time on issues which we wouldn't have had on AWS or Google. Azure really under delivered on all fronts. Things looked extremely promising and then when we used a service we realised that most useful (often necessary) features were behind extremely expensive tiers and then it meant we had to either take huge hits on our hosting costs or build weird workarounds. We didn't want to go against Azure and often chose to pay, but even the higher tiered services then started to act up and often result in totally unexpected behaviour. Good luck to you though!

[Rutix]

I have experience the other way around. AWS was utterly holding us back and we gained a lot of speed when we switched to Azure. Azure has changed a lot over the years though and a lot of features behind a premium tier are now more available to lower cost tiers. Comparing something to 2.5 years ago is a long time in the fast moving cloud world.