after Azure sunk my employers project with no recourse or discussion allowed, I always advise everyone I meet to run far away from Azure if they value a reliable service.
I think when the parent commend said "no discussion allowed", it was in the context of "no recourse", not that they got some sort of a pseudo-gag-order.
I.e., basically meaning that Azure refused having any further discussions between then and the parent user, as attempts to resolve that specific case. Not that they dont't allow the parent comment user to talk about it with others on HN (or elsewhere).
I dug into the archives, every attempt to discuss or resolve the issue got shut down with the boilerplate text of:
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Greetings for the day!
I have received an update from Account Research Team: As part of our strong commitment to the protection of our customers and our interest in preserving the quality and integrity of the Azure Marketplace, we perform supplementary reviews of accounts which may exhibit irregular or suspicious activity. Your account was selected for one of these reviews and after careful consideration, this account will remain closed.
Please understand that we keep security checks like these in place in order to protect the quality and integrity of the Azure Marketplace
The ridiculous thing.. my employer makes huge use of Office365? We signed up for Azure via a slightly different path with no issues.. but I know this could be pure chance it just happens to work as the service could be teetering on a precipice of arbitrary policy application and the rug could be pulled from under it any second with the same infuratingly cheery account deletion..
