From IaaS/PaaS perspective, you should look at the 1) Range of available Options : Is the infrastructure providing faster computing resources OR storage OR database services OR a combination of many. 2) Pricing : Fixed Pricing or Pay as you Go. Later being the best. 3) The current trend of incoming and outgoing traffic of the provider: Most chosen by customers or not. 4) SLA : On the situation of an outage, what is their policy? Refund ? History of outages ? 5) Scaling systems in place : Are load balancers installed by the providers which keep the service instances always up.

Abhishek Sivasubramanian Senior Software Developer Suyati Technologies, India

Azure is a platform that supports building and running multitenant applications. Architecting the right kind of azure data storage strategy is the key in getting your application run in multitenant mode on Azure. To answer your question, Azure platform supports applications that can run in multitenant applications. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh534480.aspx[^]

Abhishek Sivasubramanian Senior Software Developer Suyati Technologies, India