Cloud premise is an ability to fire expensive sysadmins and let cloud babysit your needs. Amazon was the first in the world to create the cloud but it's still a

Cloud premise is an ability to fire expensive sysadmins and let cloud babysit your needs. Amazon was the first in the world to create the cloud but it's still a bare-metal cloud today. "Lacking service" ? Of course - they didn't promise any service whatsoever to begin with. In other words you pay more to use Amazon cloud + you still have to hire and pay sysadmins to babysit the whole pile of Amazon cloud mess. That's what MSFT is perfectly positioned to solve with Azure + their excellent set of mature tools and services. MSFT came late to the cloud game (as Ballmer was mostly doing in all other games for the last 10 yrs) - but they are getting this enterprise play right step by step.