Azure is like the SharePoint of cloud services. The controls are horrible. They keep making breaking changes to how they do crap; the whole thing is unintuitive enough that you really need someone trained to use it.

I stood it up beside AWS and used them both for what they were cheaper for; I eventually gave in and migrated the last few images I had over there to AWS.

Azure works, but it's not good. IMO, the only reason it exists is that they have good Datacenter licensing fees and people using Entre to get away from having to host their own DCs.

I've never understood the appeal with Azure. I was forced to use it for 4 years and hated every second of it. It's really awful.

But irrelevant for most users. Azure can stay all it wants but we must be freed from the shackles of Microsoft Office

Only because Microsoft offers bundle deals between Azure and O365 for business customers. The point still stands.

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