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Azure storage queues are basically "queues lite" while the service bus is more full featured, think rabbitmq.

And the portal does indeed suck. The cli, on the other hand, is top notch.

Which CLI you mean? azure-xplat-cli or the new azure-cli (multiple differently named services that seem to basically do the same thing)?

Yup, but this took me way too long to figure out.

Sadly this goes for a lot of Azure services and all the enterprise-buzzword laden documentation doesn't make that easier

You should look at the various official blogs around Azure, they're much more down-to-earth and buzzword free than the formal docs.