Very true. It is my understanding though that the primary use case of the VM role is to allow legacy applications to sit in the cloud without needing to rebuild for the Azure platform.

VMRole still isnt IaaS, since it doesn't have the equivalent of EC2's EBS backed instance storage. The Azure drive is close, but still not the same. So if you need persistence on the instance storage, you'll still have issues.

I hear it's coming though.

My point entirely.

My company uses IaaS to develop SaaS platforms or are they PaaS. Hmm. Sounds like bullshit.

I'd love to see a Venn diagram that actually defines these marketing terms.

IMHO computers is computers.