Microsoft said it lost weeks of security logs for its customers' cloud products

If you use Azure in any realistic production environments, then it's on you. Even with $100k in free credits, they couldn't convince me to use it for more than a month. It is expensive, the interface is highly user unfriendly and most important of all, their products don't at all seem reliable for production workloads because of stuff like this. Sorry Microsoft, I think you can do much better.

When you come from other cloud providers, working with Azure has so many dark-orange flags. It feels totally inconsistent and patched together. This makes it hard for me to believe that anybody can properly audit it for security.

The most uncomfortable part is their log in. The amount of re-directs and glitches there are insane. Its hard to believe that it works as intended.

As an example, for some reason I could not download the BAA because trying to download it lead to a login loop on their trust website, while I was still able to see the Azure console ok in the same browser.

When I signed out of my Azure account to try if a fresh login helped, it did not trigger my 2FA at the next login. In my mind, if I actively logged out from a browser window, I withdraw my trust in that device. So not being triggered for 2FA is a massive red flag.

(no I still could not download the BAA, nor file a ticket for it, but somehow a colleague could download it ok.)

> It feels totally inconsistent and patched together.

I believe that multiple article, e.g. on The Register, has mentioned that people who have left the Azure team has routinely complained that the pace was to high, and that everything is pretty much duct taped together. This was years ago, so it may have changed.