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.

@pthenq1 Because they gave me a free subscription and I haven't got around to moving things off there yet.

But thanks for your completely unhelpful advice.

@david_chisnall
Oh. You are evaluating it.

I had bad experiences with Azure and Oracle.

Sorry I cannot help more