Yeah. Azure is such a weird platform for not actually having a competitive way to just cheaply deploy a simple .NET app, it's a weird design decision.

You get dragged into "Container instances" when then require "Azure Container Registry" or something else that is never really clear what you're getting and how much it'll cost.

I run one thing using the free allowance, but for everything else I just rent a cheap VPS elsewhere.

One thing Azure offers that other clouds don't is so many customers already in it consuming other Microsoft products.

While I'm cloud agnostic, this unique difference for Azure should not be overlooked compared to the other clouds.