I am not comparing pulumi against something else. But I have too very similar projects, one for aws and one for azure and the azure one takes must longer to deploy and destroy

What resources are in your project? It sounds like the Azure resources in question may just take longer to provision.

Insights, container, storageaccount, resourcegroup and httpeventsubscription basically

AKS takes a long time to provision if that’s what you are doing with

container

. Cloud provider provisioning performance for “similar” concepts can be very different. I do not expect there is any Pulumi-specific difference here.