One of the great things we like about Microsoft Azure is that it has a consistent identity and access infrastructure whether it be Entra ID, RBAC, Conditional Access, everything works in sync. Another thing is simplified lifecycle operations, like for VM's it has native support for managed disks, backups, monitoring etc. Security is also great, you can have rule based NSGs at the subnet and NIC level. App services are good and offer multiple deployment slots, environment separations and rollbacks.

Overall, Azure is not that great to me in some areas and excellent in others. VM's work great. Never had an issue running a vm. Try to start adding backups, networks, redundancy etc.... this get complicated really quick. Microsoft seems like that really want to purposely keep things complex on purpose. It is never easy to find what you need. Security is in a bunch of different places. Also, everything when you think you learned where something is, Microsoft deprecates it or moves it somewhere else.