This is fine for hacking a POC together, but for anything in production I'd want to go the immutable infra route deployed from a CD server, so the visual studio

This is fine for hacking a POC together, but for anything in production I'd want to go the immutable infra route deployed from a CD server, so the visual studio integration doesnt really help. At a high level I'd say, Azure is more coherent and seems to have a clearer technical vision. They achieve this by moving slower and being more willing to deprecate services/apis which dont meet that standard. AWS move quicker, they offer leading edge tech first, which means that it is often more battle tested and reliable, but they dont benefit from having the opportunity to learn from others' mistakes, which means they tend to expose more warts and inconsistencies to end users.