Azure tried this, not with their hyperscaler stuff, but with Azure Operator Nexus. Basically an "opinionated" combination of Dell, Arista, and Pure storage wit

Azure tried this, not with their hyperscaler stuff, but with Azure Operator Nexus. Basically an "opinionated" combination of Dell, Arista, and Pure storage with a special Azure AKS running on top and a metric ton of management and orchestration smarts. The target customer base was telcos who needed local capabilities in their data centers and who might otherwise have gone to OCP. As far as I can surmise, it's dead, but not EOLed. Microsoft nuked the operator business unit earlier in the year, and judging by recent job postings from contract shops, AT&T might be the only customer.