Cloud on Ricardo Martins — Cloud Architecture, Azure, Kubernetes & AI

Why Azure Feels Harder Than AWS

Tue, 03 Feb 2026 10:00:00 -0400

…and why that’s not an accident.

If you have worked with both Azure and AWS long enough, you have probably felt it.

AWS feels straightforward. Azure feels… heavier.

Not worse. Not broken. Just harder to reason about.

The console feels denser. The mental model feels less obvious. The number of “extra” concepts feels higher.

This is not a beginner problem. Senior engineers feel it too.

And the most interesting part is this: that friction is not accidental.

Cloud Maturity Is Not About Being 100% Cloud

Fri, 23 Jan 2026 10:00:00 -0400

For years, “cloud-first” has been treated as a badge of honor. Companies proudly announce that everything is in the cloud, architects optimize for migrations instead of outcomes, and teams equate progress with how little infrastructure they still own.

But after working with dozens of real systems, across different industries and at different scales, one thing becomes clear.

Cloud maturity is not about being 100% cloud. It is about knowing why each workload is where it is.