I am aware that the authentication subsystems have major structural problems which make finding things like exfiltration bugs in azure surprisingly common. I suspect the current incident is related. I'm hoping it's also caused by too much insufficiently supervised AI coding on poor architectural foundations, and that being caused by that will be obvious and hopefully become public. But that's just speculation on my part.

My take is the reason companies use Azure is lack of imagination. Like Service Now. Just horrible software, and thems that make the decision to buy it aren't the one's who have to use it.

Vendor lock in is always a thing really, you don't always get choice in SaaS providers and how they auth. Could of course choose another SaaS provider but then that starts reducing the pool, assuming you have alternatives.

> Vendor lock in is always a thing really

Yeah, and additionally if all your counterparties are on it, you can externalise your internal tools onto them relatively easily.

This mostly doesn't work, but it's a beautiful dream for executives.

After the last couple of updates on entra, where you keep getting the "loading dots" to just pull up is insane. I still use Azure or PowerShell to do the task by the time it can "load up".