I used to use Azure as Digital Ocean++ (As a student and a MSP , I got around ~$200/m credits to play around with on it) and it worked great. However, after th

I used to use Azure as Digital Ocean++ (As a student and a MSP , I got around ~$200/m credits to play around with on it) and it worked great. However, after their facelift (the new portal), they are trying to be more like AWS and I found it significantly more complicated to do simple stuff (like adding ports, or load balancing) that was much easier before. Furthermore, I find AWS easier to use (maybe because of it being more popular and having more people blogging about it) compared to Azure. The point of this comment is...Azure is an awesome platform if used as a Digital Ocean++ for now (and if you can afford it), otherwise I have personally found AWS and GC much easier to use (and cheaper in some cases). Disclosure: I used to work as an MS Evangelist & was an MSP.