[gundmc]

There are a number of reasons not to launch as an external cloud offering. A few:

- Reliability (performance and availability) could be below Azure standards

- Supply chain maturity - they may have difficulty scaling procurement and deployment to meet orders

- Lock in - major cloud providers typically provide product guarantees with forenotice on the order of years before a deprecation. It's a big commitment to launch a product externally.

- Business case - maybe the TCO doesn't make sense when compared with Azure's data on demand and price point