Azure Functions

Azure Function Apps allow arbitrary code execution maintained by operators without visibility into what the code does. The portal-based code editing encourages insecure practices like copy-pasting production code directly into the portal, and the original developer value proposition of not managing infrastructure is compromised by pipeline requirements.

Azure Functions have poor documentation focusing on GUI-based VSCode approaches. Infrastructure-as-code provisioning requires understanding undocumented file structure requirements scattered across 300+ screenshots. Troubleshooting is difficult due to the .NET runtime abstraction.