I can’t give Azure money if I tried. And I have repeatedly. About 10 years ago I created an Azure account with my normal email and my US address. I did some st

I can’t give Azure money if I tried. And I have repeatedly. About 10 years ago I created an Azure account with my normal email and my US address. I did some stuff but never had a reason to use Azure in a situation where I’d pay for resources. Some years later I wanted to check out Azure for a small project. I go to log in and it tells me I need to add billing or something. I enter my credit card info and get to the address section. My zip code won’t validate. That’s odd. It’s saying it wants numbers and letters. Wait why does it think I’m in Canada? I’m in California. CA? Hmm. Anyway should be easy let me fix the Country. Oh it’s greyed out. YOU CAN’T CHANGE THE COUNTRY?! Surely this must be a bug. File a support request. Nope can’t change country. Escalate and explain that I can’t add a credit card because I am not a CA resident and don’t have a Canadian payment method. They tell me they can’t change for tax reasons. But they never took my money because I can’t pay them… I go on to tell them I never even selected Canada there must be some UI bug when they first rolled out the new account format. They said theres a known issue where this can happen. I ask them to fix. They can’t because taxes. They tell me I have to create a new email if I want to use Azure. I wont do that because I have virtue. I try two more times over the course of 6 or so years. Both times I’m escalated to someone who thinks they can fix the problem for me. I think at one point there was a technical work order put in to delete my Azure account so I could try again. But somehow it always gets thwarted. So what happened? I’ve been able to piece together that Azure transitioned to a new account model between when I first created my account and when I tried again the first time. The old model was independent of your MS account. The new one not so much. Somehow Azure migrated my legacy account with a US address and morphed it into an account with a Canadian country set. This Canadian account is intimately linked to my normal MS live account which has a US address and payment info nonetheless. An early version of the Azure account migration UI locked in your country before verifying your payment/address. For “tax reasons” you cant change but it’s totally fine that my US live account has a Canadian Azure account and that, if I was able to do things as MS wants, I’d be paying for MS apps and services with a US card and Azure resources with a Canadian one. Because that’s better for taxes?! So to this day I can’t use Azure because I’m not willing to change my live account login email address, my main email address, to something else just to work around MS’s bullshit. Because yes, now it’s all the same and your azure account is your live account. That’s a known issue and we have a simple workaround: just kindly make a new email address…