This coincides with my experience. At first, Azure (AWS, ...) were simple enough to get started in no time. Later, the service creation "wizards" started becomi

This coincides with my experience. At first, Azure (AWS, ...) were simple enough to get started in no time. Later, the service creation "wizards" started becoming progressively bloated, getting full of vendor-specific details I could not care less, but was required to pay attention to in order to get a minimally running service. Needless to say that those details weren't rewarding at all. Knowing them just served the ego of specific vendors, who were more than happy to pull a rug under your feet with deprecations, migrations, and "required actions" I had to manually follow in order to keep the services just running. Enough is enough. One sunny day in 2021, I started to migrate the infrastructure using a garage inspired approach. Dockerfile became a breath of fresh air, a relieve after the years of convoluted dictatorships. No more dependencies on ever-changing whims of individual cloud vendors, no rug pulls. Just you, your services, and freedom. I had no prerogative of keeping my servers near me, instead I found a good home at fly.io. I still use Azure, this time not as a swiss-knife almighty cloud, but as an interchangeable commodity supplier (storage).