2,5 years ago Azure generously offered us a Startup credit, we were already on Azure so we said why not. At that time our compute needs were way lower than now, yet we were given very large amount of credits. Once first year was up Azure kept pushing us to use more of their managed services. At some point we got an email and It was quite hard to convince them not to terminate our account since it was not "vendor locked enough" for them e.g. we didn't use their proprietary Services/APIs and deliberately used only AKS (Their managed Kubernetes service) and even within AKS no managed Prometheus etc. to be flexible if needed. Right now our total monthly bill is $7900 on Azure - That includes fleet of Kubernetes Nodes, CDN, LoadBalancers, some Serverless Functions and Databases. We considered converting to the paid plan at Azure but when we compared the cost the difference was shocking.…