What's the advantage of Sql Azure?

Hi all;
We assumed that Sql Azure handled clustering, but apparently that feature is in beta (and has been making no progress for a long time). So what's the advantage of Sql Azure over having a VM we install Sql Server on? Because it looks to me like the VM route
is equivalent or better (better because you don't get the occasional delay).
I'm not trying to be antagonistic here, just trying to understand the utility of Sql Azure.
??? - thanks - dave
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Hi;
First off, we've never found Sql Server all that much work. Installs easily and then we're off and running. I understand people finding create & go a big win, but Sql Server is pretty much that already for us.
Our use case is we are creating a cloud app that we hope to see world-wide use of it. So we want to start located in the US & Europe and use TrafficManager to send apps to the closest server. There are 2 key DB records for all the requests we'll get,
the customer & the user.
The user will tend to be on one continent (but not always). But the customer can have employees (users) on every continent. And for each request coming through, we need to get that customer record fast. Very very fast.
I'm guessing that 95% (or more) of our DB activity will be selects.
Our hope was you had Sql Azure working so it could be instantiated in each data center we have our cloud service and then each is hitting a local DB. But we need it keeping each in-sync with the other because of that customer record (and the user record
in case of TrafficManager switching who they go to because something went down).
This is the one thing we've never been able to get Sql Server (on our servers) to do - sync between instances. So I understand that this is hard (impossible?). But at the same time, I think many have this same need we have.
thanks - dave
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