While you're right about the access to AI models on Azure, I wouldn't tie my infrastructure to Azure just for that. Sure, you might have to use them for that se

While you're right about the access to AI models on Azure, I wouldn't tie my infrastructure to Azure just for that. Sure, you might have to use them for that service, but ship the queries in & the results back to a cloud of choice; especially LLMs in most uses cases won't represent a huge amount of data; the costs of egress < the costs of dealing with Azure. We're (now only partially) on Azure for reasons stated upthread: desire from the industry. We've partially moved since, and the experience as a whole has soured me on Azure as a reliable cloud provider (I've had to engage with support far more often). Their support, in particular, is terrible¹, and a lot of their offerings IME are less stable or harder to work with than AWS. I'm now moderately experienced with GCP, and I think GCP has them beat, too. ¹missed SLAs, a huge desire to close tickets prematurely, failures to address things asked of them, really bad communication skills, constantly divorcing replies into new threads, dredging up asked & answered stuff, repeatedly asking questions covered in the original ticket's opening set of answers, asking the customer for stuff they should know, etc.