Hi DLN.  I did an experiment back in 2015 (See article "Successful Experiment to Run Sage 500 database from Windows Azure Virtual Machine") where I set up a SQL Virtual Machine and installed the Sage 500 database and utilities to it and connected to a local client.  I passed this information onto Sage asking them to take it further and list it as a supported configuration.  However, they haven't done so to date as far as I know, so I would not recommend doing this on your own as Sage may not provide support if you run into any issues. 

There are a couple of articles on the Ideas page asking for this you can vote for.  As Azure has improved since I did my experiment, I don't see why Sage wouldn't look into supporting this type of configuration as this is what a lot of companies are looking at to keep hardware costs down.

Hi DLN.  I did an experiment back in 2015 (See article "Successful Experiment to Run Sage 500 database from Windows Azure Virtual Machine") where I set up a SQL Virtual Machine and installed the Sage 500 database and utilities to it and connected to a local client.  I passed this information onto Sage asking them to take it further and list it as a supported configuration.  However, they haven't done so to date as far as I know, so I would not recommend doing this on your own as Sage may not provide support if you run into any issues. 

There are a couple of articles on the Ideas page asking for this you can vote for.  As Azure has improved since I did my experiment, I don't see why Sage wouldn't look into supporting this type of configuration as this is what a lot of companies are looking at to keep hardware costs down.