There are a few issues, but to be fair I've encountered similar things in all the cloud and VPS hosting services I've used. However, I do remember that I was once trying to push Azure as a solution and they promptly had an outage. We went with AWS instead. It's not that AWS don't have outages, they do, just that the timing was really bad.

Also, don't use the preview services in Azure apart from to try them out. They really are previews.

I've recently written a three part series of blog posts on AWS vs Azure. The third part, on pricing, is out today.

https://unop.uk/on-aws-vs-azure-vendor-lock-in-and-pricing-c...

Edit: One plus of Azure (at least for me) is that it runs on renewable energy. https://www.microsoft.com/about/csr/environment/renewable_en...