I've been quite pleased with the Azure stack myself. There is the issue of figuring out what the marketing team named the damned thing you are looking for, but I had the same problem with AWS.

I am focused primarily on .Net though, so your YMMV by a lot.

> There is the issue of figuring out what the marketing team named the damned thing you are looking for, but I had the same problem with AWS.

Does Azure have an equivalent for this invaluable resource?

https://expeditedsecurity.com/aws-in-plain-english/

Oddly enough... the same site has it.

https://www.expeditedssl.com/azure-in-plain-english

not exclusive to azure as aws lambda requires API gateway now, but if i wanted to create a cloud function, azure auto generates like 2-3 other separate requires services for storage, http endpoint, etc

You do not need an API gateway for an HTTP triggered Azure Function. You do need a storage account, because that's where it stores the files that back your Function.

You can’t utilize anything in their tech stack without spending days going back and forth with the licensing department.

What are you talking about? Can you give some examples? Many of their things are licensed under MIT.