Running AKS from even late 2018 is completely different than running it now. They have been making strides in provisioning and it is more than stable enough to

Running AKS from even late 2018 is completely different than running it now. They have been making strides in provisioning and it is more than stable enough to run AKS clusters in production. Provisioning an AKS cluster in Nov 2018 would sometimes take up to 45minutes/1hour or end up in an error'd state. By the time Kubecon rolled around (a month later, Dec 2018) AKS clusters were taking between 4~6 minutes to provision on average. Compared to EKS, it is definitely a more automated way of provisioning a K8s cluster (workers provisioned for you) and definitely takes less time to provision (EKS takes roughly 12~15min).