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> AWS... It is literally years behind Azure.

I’m going to have to disagree with you here, AWS has some quirks, but the UI is being actively worked on and improved but Azure is an outright dumpster fire.

Who thought scrolling sideways was a great idea? Why does the x close _everything_ and take you back to the dashboard and not just close the current pane?

Why is everything about permissions and auth so hard to find?



> Why does the x close _everything_ and take you back to the dashboard and not just close the current pane?

Well, at least if it did that /consistently/ it would be an improved. It sometimes just closes the current pane as expected.

More generally speaking, to me Azure feels very jarring. There are panes that are logically pretty much the same but have wildly different behaviours (I'm thinking of AzureAD 'subpanes', some of which take over and there's no way of going back to the main AzureAD pane even by scrolling).

There's also the issue of the interface not being updated after changes and of having to switch panes for the change to be effective or even to reload (reboot?) the whole page (I'm thinking of setting up auto-provisioning in AzureAD apps).


Who likes Azure interface? It's Windows 95 on the web. Unless you know how to navigate having remembered all the maze structure with years of operation, I can't for the sake find what costed what in the last month.

UI is a total joke. It's like a machine built it literally just listing everything instead of by a human mind.


It's not just the UI either, have you seen the REST API for Azure Blob Storage? It's Kafkaesque.

And Cosmos DB? 'Request Units'? W. T. F.


Oh god their units!

Provisioning disks comes with the caveat that on AKS, Kubernetes sees things one way, but Azure bills you in some bizarre, Azure specific unit of disk space and speed and then there’s whatever the hell goes on with the pricing / units on the SQL Server instances...


Ah, you'd be talking about DTUs! Those are fun. Blended measures of CPU, IO and some other Magic(TM) factor. Impossible to predict how your workload maps to DTUs until you try it and see.




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