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I love Azure for this. The names are almost all extremely straightforward. There are a handful that have made the jump from confusing to straight forward, and a handful that have made the jump from straightforward to confusing (CosmosDB, formerly DocumentDB, chiefly comes to mind).

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Agreed. Too bad the Azure portal is the polar opposite. AWS, for all its faults, is mostly just a boring HTML portal but it works.

Azure tried to get fancy, with side sliding panels all over the place, and it is barely useable. The nicest thing I can say is it is "quirky." It isn't really productive however, particularly not on my 1080p monitor at Windows 10's default 125% DPI.

I literally quit Azure's Application Insights and went back to Google Analytics simply because I hated the Azure UI with a burning passion of a thousand suns.

The concept of writing queries is good, but if that's the only way you can get at your data you better make it damn easy, and they didn't. I'm sure for full time data pros it is a dream however.

Azure Portal feels like if someone tried to make the Xbox 360 blade interface into an admin tool, without first asking the admins what they needed.

That's interesting. I actually quite like it. I can build monitoring dashboards for our various services an see how something I don't need to monitor is doing just by going to the panel for it. To each his own I suppose.

Except for the fact that Azure names seem to change once per year.

Our Azure SA was giving us a presentation and actually got confused himself. "So that's TFS... I mean VSTS... Actually wait, it's Azure DevOps now?"

I worked at Microsoft for a while and I swear most of their "upgrades" are nothing more than renaming things and juggling menu items around so people can't find them.

Just wait until next year when it’s called TFSHub.

Yes the names are good but they still suffer for the MS illness: they change every few years. I also agree with other comments about the portal UI. Heck, it's supposed to be a professional tool...

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