Mirroring what many others have said, Azure is often broken and generally frustrating to use. Performance is also often _quite bad_ and there will be frustrating network limitations based on seemingly unrelated configurations. For example, we discovered that we could nearly double the download speeds to our webservers (downloading from Azure storage even) by upgrading to a beefier SKU. This may sound reasonable on the surface, but we were seeing speeds of only ~10Mb/s, often less. Even now, we see extremely slow download speeds and it is dependent on time of day - slowest during peak business hours and faster in the dead of night. I understand network congestion, but this just seems completely absurd when we're talking about servers that both exist within the same Azure region - likely in the same DC - having worse download speeds than I get from my $5 DigitalOcean droplet to my house.

Azure storage is absolute hot garbage.