Hi,

We (the data team) at my company actually just did a number of short Proof of Concepts (POC's) on this looking at SQLAzure, SQL Azure DW and RedShift  and we concluded that none of them was right for us at this point in time.

We found that as we are a MS team now (both data and apps) that moving to anything else would be a huge undertaking and in our case the cost massively outweighed the benefit.

With regards to SQL Azure and AzureDW we found that limitations in functionality meant that the costs again outweighed the benefits (for now).

I'd be happy to share the POC documents if anyone wants them.

Thanks,

Nic