Wow, moving an IP address between two #Azure subscriptions takes over an hour (and counting) and it has to be disconnected from a VM while doing so. How on Earth do you design infrastructure where an operation that should be updating one table in a database takes so long? Even manual telephone exchanges could do the equivalent operation faster.
@david_chisnall
Why are you using Azure?
Use gcp, AWS, linden (akamai), or digital Ocean.