Start ups that choose things like Azure are a red flag for me. Churn is really problematic. Learning a code base by having to poke and grok takes a lot longer than being able to fire off a few questions.
yeah azure has come a long way since 2016. id say it has devex ~amazon, better than gcp. but to his point the startup picking azure is a bit of a red flag, though it's not the best example of a red flag, imo.