The cost benefit is that if you are small, most of it is free, or near free. It gets expensive when you scale, but if you use fabric instead of VM's, it's nearl

The cost benefit is that if you are small, most of it is free, or near free. It gets expensive when you scale, but if you use fabric instead of VM's, it's nearly effortless compared to hiring two or three top notch net admins and running / renting a datacenter for eternity. The hook is at small scale, the catch is at medium/large scale. For Azure, licensing is included.