I am trying to
compare Azure with CloudShare as a development environment for SharePoint &
.NET development for testing environment.
Stability: Azure is better
Maturity & support: Azure is better
Machine templates: Cloudshare is way better, you have too many good stable images which you can start to develop with, many farms templates are available like FAST, full BI stack SharePoint
machine… more than 15 preconfigured Sharepoint
machine templates, for azure we only have one :-(
Cost: CloudShare is cheaper, and it has THEKILLER feature that enables you to turn of the machine after 1 hour being idle, which is perfect for developers & testing environments, and you can also publish website on internet & once the turned off machine is being hit through the http, it will turn on in 5 minutes'! So even customers will be happy with this :-) for testing
So is there any way to:
- Enable azure to have such feature (turn off automatically & turn on once a request hit a published website on it)
- Where I can find Azure templates, all what I have is a very simple useless SharePoint 2013 machine… I need more templates!