The free credits are nice, but run out quickly. Azure is expensive, but has a lot of nice tools from key vaults, log analyzers, CDN, databases, pipelines, to fi

The free credits are nice, but run out quickly. Azure is expensive, but has a lot of nice tools from key vaults, log analyzers, CDN, databases, pipelines, to firewalls. I mean, yeah, you can implement similar stuff on a DO platform but you're going to be wiring it all up yourself, taking on the liability for keeping it all secure, and providing the warranty for its availability and effectiveness. The value to AWS/GCP/Azure is far beyond free credits. They've commoditized services - it rarely makes sense to pay for in-house expertise in managing those services yourself. Also, the offline version of Office is going away, to my knowledge. I think the current boxed version is the last boxed version they plan to sell.