"Turns out" is an entirely unnecessary addition to the headline. That GitLab uses/used Azure is public knowledge. They've blogged and spoken about it extensive

"Turns out" is an entirely unnecessary addition to the headline. That GitLab uses/used Azure is public knowledge. They've blogged and spoken about it extensively - and that they are given a large amount of resources for free as part of their use too. Not only that, they conducted a full infrastructure review and potential migration plan in full public view - again discussing widely their use of Azure and why the switch to bare metal wasn't going to work. There have been multiple discussions about this here on HackerNews. I surprised that anyone wouldn't know that Gitlab was on Azure. It's still good to spread the word I guess - though to suggest it's somehow newly discovered information is a little disingenuous.