As a random example, they charge customers to store audit logs. That would be “fine”, except that they charge something like 7x what AWS does for the equivalent service. The AWS pricing is already what I would call “too high”, which makes Azure’s log analytics pricing highway robbery. It can cost more than the VMs it is auditing!
Another fun problem is that their audit logs only log the identity of the person that triggered the event about 50% of the time. In many cases they mask or drop this field, which is the most important piece of data in such a log!
So for example a developer in our org pressed a button in an Application Insights troubleshooting wizard when his app ran out of memory. This “helpfully” doubled the size of an already huge server pool that had a reservation in it. We ended up paying $15K extra that month and never figured out who did it because the logged identity was some internal service account!
