Personal experience of around 3 years of solid usage, spanning many Azure services, with complex systems running in production for several clients. > they are

Personal experience of around 3 years of solid usage, spanning many Azure services, with complex systems running in production for several clients. > they are 2nd only due to their strong existing connections to enterprise Those connections sure help, but only really for Microsoft-shops. As I mentioned, if you're already using AD, SMB file servers etc, then it makes a lot of sense since they have 1st-class support for these in the cloud.