Hard agree here. AZURE has been playing hard catchup with AWS in terms of feature parity, but scratch the surface of almost any of their services and you will discover shonky, bug ridden implementations (and many things seem to be in perpetual preview) that are more expensive than their AWS analogues.
This has been my observation too. AWS started with primitives needed to operate a cloud service. I remember the days of AWS where many features were available via API’s only, no Web Console. Then built higher level services on top of those as customer needs became clearer.
Using Azure always felt like that the inside development must be led by marketing team: “here are all the services AWS has, go build them as cheaply as possible from all the existing garbage we have, by yesterday!”
