Selling Custom WebApps?

Greetings,
I've got a simple question, with an answer surprisingly difficult to find. We've created an application that customers will deploy as a web app. The web app bundles up our proprietary code, along with the customers modifications. This is typically licensed
on a per-CPU basis.
Now in Azure it's simple enough to provide a VM for customers to spin up and, I assume, with the correct arrangements in place, MS will bill the customer on our behalf for the hours used.
Is there a way for us to sell instances of our web app? Given the ease of deployment and scalability, we'd like to charge users on a per-hour basis.
I understand the challenge here: from an Azure perspective I think that a web app is just dropped into a container of sorts and executed on the infrastructure. There is nothing special about our web app vs any other. It's exactly the simplicity of deploying
and scaling a web app from a customers perspective that makes it difficult for us to keep track of their usage.
Any ideas? We can't really use APIs because the customer will customize the web app API depending on their problem domain. VMs are tested, but don't give the customer the elastic scalability. Perhaps there's a way for us to embed some kind of tracking or
usage report?

hi Steve,
According to your description, I think the VM is the best choice for your scenarios. You can dispatch each VM to one web application. VM could have the auto-scaling feature on Azure Platform, please refer to this page(http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/virtual-machines-manage-availability/
). But If you wants to use Azure website, base on my experience and understanding, you may need use the basic/standard mode to host your customer's web application. For some features , free mode don't support custom domain name, and shared mode have limit
of some features, please refer to this official documents(http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/websites/ )
For your latest question, currently Azure don't have the Billing API to monitor the each service and items usage on Azure. But if you use VM, you can calculator the every VM or website size and running time to got the cost(http://blogs.technet.com/b/learningittogether/archive/2014/10/27/using-rest-api-from-powershell-to-get-additional-azure-vm-status-details.aspx).
Regards,
Will
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