Thread by @QuinnyPig

Last night's @azure discussion got me curious.

First I have to verify a phone number (Google Voice not allowed), now they want a credit card as well. Which box do I leave blank to *not* get information, tips, and offers?

So far this isn't the experience I had hoped for.

Now to figure out where to generate API keys. Security Center? Doesn't look like it.

Even the terminology ("everything is a subscription") speaks very much to Old Microsoft. My skin begins to crawl.

Let's try something straightforward.

"You want to run @Azure's equivalent of a Python Lambda function in the Central US (default) region? No can-doosville, baby doll! You need to spin up a VM to run that function on first."

No combination of regions appears to support anything other than an App service plan (which means money; for this toy app "consumption" is the goal). I feel like I'm missing something key here.

And now we pause for a bit.

https://twitter.com/jeffhollan/status/1343949309612462082?s=20