Suppose you have currently a sps 2010 site and maybe you want to upgrade. What will you do upgrade ? or place it in the cloud ?
And you use the sps only for document archive and some team sites, currently you have the whole DTAP config and every rol is configured for high availability. The deployment is done by SCCM in the first place and using VMM 2012 with orchestrator to deploy a bigger farm if you need one.
but why all this if you can place this in azure let me hear your opinion and or when would you place it in the cloud and when not.
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Well If you use a demo site and you have a MSDN subscribtion the cost are very low there is free access now with a free $200 and if you shut down the VM it wiil cost nothing this sounds good.
But if you have a customer with a small number of users but you will need the uptime and you do not have a Datacenter and no time to manage or build the site knowledge the cloud sound nice and is a very intresting option. large sites ? large DB and still this could be important as a failover site create a hybrid SPS site one leg in the cloud.
Large companys are also using 0365 and why not using thick Office on the desktop.
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I am actually building a Azure VM for a demo environment at the moment! Â I am not sure WHEN you would use it, I am actually interested of hearing when someone decided to go in Azure instead of on Premise and why.Â
The cost is sure an issue the cost factor will be the SQL DB size and the bandwith usage. but running it in a own Datacenter ( if you have one ) is also not cheap, management,backup,hardware. rackspace/cooling/power/storage.
But I agree the law issue is a big part and I see this as the biggest issue especialy now that some agency is tapping the internet .-)
but If I use the azure calculator it will not cost me 4K p/m but when would you use azure ? demo environment  ?
I think Azure is still expensive.  For example a DC + SQL + 1 APP  + 2WFE Servers  would cost you easily 4000$ Per month in Azure. I don’t think at the moment the pros of Azure make up for the cost.  Don’t forget that also a lot of companies don’t want to put their documents in the cloud due to certain privacy laws the might have to follow.Â
