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I set up a minimal ARM64 linux VM with IPv6-only networking on Azure (with a cloudflare tunnel for SSH access) and it took a FRACTION of the time compared to setting up on AWS. I haven't touched Azure at all since working at Microsoft and I'm honestly pretty impressed.

In contrast, I spent several hours trying to set up an ARM64 linux VM on Oracle cloud and just came away confused and sad.

Oh that's great. I'll definitely give this a try if I come back to give oracle another chance. Their free tier instance sounds pretty nice if I can get it to work.