Azure is AWESOME. The core pieces -- compute, storage, queues, and especially database -- are rock solid and often far more powerful than the AWS equivalents. D

Azure is AWESOME. The core pieces -- compute, storage, queues, and especially database -- are rock solid and often far more powerful than the AWS equivalents. Dig in and you'll start to see big holes in AWS. I still use AWS for some things. But I'd also avoid the newer, weirder stuff both places. Amazon API Gateway? Amazon Lambda? Azure Data Factory? Azure Active Directory B2C? Yeah, expect pain.