Ask HN: Is Azure reliable? If not, what is the best place to create windows VMs?

I have been using AWS since 10+ years. Today I decided to try Azure. Eventual consistency with severe lag is apparent all over their UI. At the end of signup, they threw an error. After a few refreshes I could see the portal. Then they wanted me to signup for a subscription, but the error for that was in Portuguese (which is neither related to my locale, nor any preferences). Finally I somehow signed up for the subscription after multiple tries, but it took almost 10 minutes to reflect in the Azure portal. I wanted to use the cheapest 128 GB RAM machine which has 16 cores. However they have 10 core limit. I raised a support request to increase the core limit but it hasn't been handled for almost 8 hours and I am stuck because of this.

Are they really so bad! I am really disappointed. If they are dropping the ball with something so clearly in their control, I am not sure how much help they would be when there is a serious issue.

Should I think about another provider? Which other cloud provider, will allow to me run more than 128 GB RAM Windows VM, where all the data persists between restarts. I intend to use this machine 2 hours per day and keep it down when not in use. Couldn't find an easy way to make this happen on AWS.