I only tried Azure for a few weeks, but I think it's underlying concepts and foundations are way too windows/.NET centric and still half baked in surprising areas when coming from a non Microsoft background. I wouldn't be surprised if it was the case for the author.

I know a lot of things have changed at Microsoft, but and also the language I was using (ruby) was not the best match perhaps. But at a lot of steps:

- documentation was directed at VS ("you have this nice integration to do that in 30s. Other people go this way, poor some jugs of coffee you'll need it.")

- docs and tutorials are old and deprecated. Even articles written by staffers a few months ago were explaining stuff that disappeared from the portal interface, and no update was available. There seems to have been a huge system transition, and it was painful to be caught in the middle, especially when after that it means the new system has a risk of being beta quality for a while.

- anything remotely complex means moving to Kudu, when there's already another set of CLI tools to deal with.

Basically it felt like I needed to invest 6 months of my life to really get it, and then I'll be ready to use it professionally. AWS or even GKE don't have as much as a learning curve for people coming from the linux world in my opinion.