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Yeah the tiered pricing makes Azure super complex. Azure App Services is crazy. The problem there is there are technical differences too, so it's very hard to sort out what you need. Storage is more complex too. While AWS has lots of challenges from those 700 teams, each services is simpler.

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Sounds like all microsoft licensing. Its ridiculously complicated and even the dedicated people hired to handle JUST that for you will often be confused or not up to date.

In almost 30 years of dealing professionally with MS I have never once been able to get an answer to any licensing question, without the MS rep needing to consulting with others and get back to me.

The licensing is complex by intention.

Yea they want to confuse you so you buy more stuff!

The good reps I have seen make their own matrix or spreadsheets you can go through to see products.

Often though I have discovered random smaller and cheaper product lines that save us a ton of money.

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