> I managed to paper it over with retries on each side You'll hit that elsewhere as well. “Papering over with retries” is standard MS advice for Azure SQL and

> I managed to paper it over with retries on each side You'll hit that elsewhere as well. “Papering over with retries” is standard MS advice for Azure SQL and a number of other services: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/best-practices/retry-service-specific https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/best-pr...