alt Hacker News> It is a general purpose server and container distribution.
My god, it isn't, where are people getting that from? The previous submission (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48407499) from the very same author got it wrong both times?
Microsoft themselves call it "Purpose-Built for Azure", why cannot the other Microsoft/Windows salesmen also call it that instead of "general purpose server and container distribution"?
Both of those things are true in different ways.
Purpose built for azure probably means integration with azure meta data APIs and kernel specific tweaks for the hardware.
It could also be general purpose for what you can run on it.
Basically it's a curated distro. Not complicated or anything different from what AWS and GCE are doing.