The article has small bits of useful info but the article and site reeks of submarine (Microsoft Azure) advertising for me.. Their homepage has a testimonial/r

The article has small bits of useful info but the article and site reeks of submarine (Microsoft Azure) advertising for me.. Their homepage has a testimonial/review-blurb of the game as the very first thing from a Microsoft "White paper". Below that there are 2 videos, one of which is an "Interview Rob Fraser - Microsoft". And of course the article itself focuses on Azure with another 12 mentions of Azure and how it runs Windows, .Net and C# so well (I'd hope so). Also, the 7 mill requests/second aren't real world numbers but just a software benchmark. Oh and the benchmark was run on an instance that has 16 cores, 3TB of SSD storage, and 224 GB of RAM. That's more like a dedicated server than a single cloud server instance (and waay more expensive than dedicated at $3061 per month per instance).