Windows Azure - anyone using it in anger?

[lokkers]

My company is looking to move away from our current server hosting provider, and my boss is very keen on moving most if not all of our server infrastructure into Azure.

I've had a play around with it in my own time and I'm quite impressed, and I've read up on a few case studies (including Pottermore, which is quite an eyeopener) and it all seems very positive.

Is anyone using it for their day-to-day business? How are you finding it?

 

[lokkers]

Give it a try, you don't really have anything to lose.

I'm 30 days into the 90 day trial, and have had a play with everything except the cloud services (which I really need to get off my backside and try).

So far I'm impressed, although I'm not sure if I'll continue using it in a personal capacity after the trial - it's rather expensive when compared to my current hosting (tsohost).

My company should be making a decision on it this week - my colleague is working on a product based on the Orchard CMS, so that'll be the first thing deployed up there if we get the go ahead.