I have no idea how well Azure stacks up to AWS, however, when I read Shaumik's post I couldn't help but think it was some kind of guerrilla marketing tactic con

I have no idea how well Azure stacks up to AWS, however, when I read Shaumik's post I couldn't help but think it was some kind of guerrilla marketing tactic conceived by a faceless shill in the inner bowels of Microsoft's marketing department. The What are you waiting for? Sign up for BizSpark already! comment really set my bullshit detector off. Shaumik, did you really take the time to go figure out the URL to their signup page to put in your blog post? Are they paying you for this stuff?