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Lock-in and egress
Cheap to fill, expensive to leave.
Data goes in free and comes out priced, and the parts that made it convenient — the identity integration, the managed services, the bits with no equivalent anywhere — are the parts with no export. The migration estimate is what keeps the renewal signed.
Meanwhile, elsewhere on Azure Sucks
Filed under other categories, by people it happened to.
Bill nobody can explain2026-08-07
A cloud bill nobody can explain: how to find the line, and who to make explain it
The bill went up, the console shows a total, and support says it reflects your usage. Here is the sequence that actually finds the cause — and the specific things to demand when the answer is a shrug.
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