Check out Hyper.sh too. It abstracts away the whole datacenter -- you can use `hyper` instead of `docker`, basically. You don't need to think about VMs ever as a concept, containers run directly on the hypervisor. And they have Hyper Func, an AWS Lambda-like alternative that uses images. And per second billing.
On the downsides, they're small and they have one data center, and they're not Microsoft. But their tech is open source.
On the downsides, they're small and they have one data center, and they're not Microsoft. But their tech is open source.