The "Blades" experience [0] where instead of navigating between pages it just kept opening things to the side and expanding horizontally?

Yeah, that had some fun ideas but was way more confusing than it needed to be. But also that was quite a few years back now. The Portal ditched that experience relatively quickly. Just long enough to leave a lot of awful first impressions, but not long enough for it to be much more than a distant memory at this point, several redesigns later.

[0] The name "Blades" for that came from the early years of the Xbox 360, maybe not the best UX to emulate for a complex control panel/portal.

Count your blessings. You could have to use Azure SSO through Oracle Cloud..... ; ;

AWS' UI is similarly messy, and to this day. They regularly remove useful data from the UI, or change stuff like the default sort order of database snapshots from last created to initial instance created date.

I never understood why a clear and consistent UI and improved UX isn't more of a priority for the big three cloud providers. Even though you talk mostly via platform SDK's, I would consider better UI especially initially, a good way to bind new customers and pick your platform over others.

I guess with their bottom line they don't need it (or cynically, you don't want to learn and invest in another cloud if you did it once).

I found it intuitive but admittedly it felt a lot like their Xbox UI which I used a lot during my formative years

Amazon: here's two buttons, some check boxes and a random popup.

MSFT : Hold my beer...