If you're reading this and thinking "it can't be that bad:" no, it really is. On paper, Azure has everything you need and more. In reality, using Azure is de

If you're reading this and thinking "it can't be that bad:" no, it really is. On paper, Azure has everything you need and more. In reality, using Azure is death by one hundred thousand cuts that's smoothed over by an army of support engineers, TAMs, and PMs (seriously!) providing the best support I have ever seen. Seriously, they are everywhere. They're probably reading this comment! Enumerating them like this is SUCH A GREAT IDEA. Here are some of the ones I experienced when I spent a year working seriously with Azure: - I hope you like HTTP 409 CONFLICT - Azure AD goes down ALL OF THE TIME. Everything in Azure and Office 365 relies on Azure AD. Somehow this is fine. - One minute, your VM will take two minutes to create. Another minute, it will take 45. You have no way of knowing beforehand. - Literally EVERYTHING about Azure ARM. You will not get nested templates right. Just give in. - Try using Azure DevOps via CLI. You will love Jira more quickly than you thought possible.