&quot;Awkwardly long loading screens&quot;.<p>What the author fails to mention is that these are on-demand instances, and what&#x27;s seen is the &#x27;environment provisioning&#x27; delay, not some sort of &#x27;loading screen&#x27;.<p>I&#x27;m getting the feeling this article is written from the viewpoint of a long-suffering Windows&#x2F;Microsoft ecosystem user.