[rdtsc]

Do you have to use Azure? Maybe Azure is nice and signaling this way the state of the internals and how things will work from here on. So it's sneakily trying to help you move to somewhere else, before things become worse and you spend the thousands and then end up stuck.

[Javin007]

:D It's a valid argument. Perhaps they're quietly trying to do me a favor? Unfortunately, my company has gone this direction, so they're stuck in my sphere whether I like it or not.

[dylan604]

That's fine as it is your company's money. You, however, do not need to give Microsoft any of your money. I get it's convenient as you're already using it at work so the familiarity is convenient. It's why I've used AWS for a couple of side hustle projects because I had familiarity from using it at work. Trying to unthink AWS to learn to think like GCP/Azure would have only slowed me down on the side hustle.

It's definitely damned if you do, damned if you don't regardless of which cloud provider is being discussed. They all have their own thorns

[anxman]

If you want to sign Windows binaries, Azure is the best way now.

[justinclift]

Why do you say that? Things like SignPath exist: https://signpath.io/knowledge-base/introduction

We've been using them for over a year now for signing the DB Browser for SQLite executables: https://sqlitebrowser.org/blog/signing-windows-executables-o...