>If Microsoft did offer something in that arena, I'd expect the licensing costs to be obnoxious. Nope. First, both AWS and Azure offer Windows hosting. Second,

>If Microsoft did offer something in that arena, I'd expect the licensing costs to be obnoxious. Nope. First, both AWS and Azure offer Windows hosting. Second, licensing costs on AWS are around 30% markup on top of same Linux hardware. Hardly "obnoxious".