Azure blob storage took me by surprise when I had to load a custom VHD. My experience with AWS/EC2/S3 led me to think it would take half a day or longer. Turn

Azure blob storage took me by surprise when I had to load a custom VHD. My experience with AWS/EC2/S3 led me to think it would take half a day or longer. Turns out, there's no transformation layers or anything. You upload the image using a special tool, it saturates your uplink for a few minutes, and before you can brew some more coffee the VM will be booting up.