irozenberg (7/10/2012)
G'day. Why you did not even consider an option to move from SQL Azure to WinServer/SQL VM in cloud as part of Microsoft Azure IaaS recent offer (announced in beginning of June).
The great thing about the existing PaaS offering from Azure - and to a lesser degree RDS - is the outsourcing of the high availability, DR and maintenance. For this particular application that was what took us away from IaaS using Amazon EC2 initially.
That’s not to say we wouldn’t use IaaS in other situations. Actually we’re currently looking at it as a possibility for a different project.