> The price doesn't matter all I care about is performance, up-time and scale-ability. AWS only has your 3rd requirement (scalability). If you care about the f

> The price doesn't matter all I care about is performance, up-time and scale-ability. AWS only has your 3rd requirement (scalability). If you care about the first two, you'll have to build that yourself using the API's to handle the random failures from AWS. I've never used Azure so I'm not sure on that side. If price really doesn't matter (over the other things) you probably want something like Rackspace's Storm On Demand servers.