If any YC startups are interested in checking out Azure, note that Microsoft grants $60k in usage credits (as well as architecture and engineering support). Shoot me a mail at felix.rieseberg@microsoft.com and I'll help you out!
Hey Felix, any chance that that offer is open to researchers as well? One of the groups I'm involved with at UW needs a decent amount of compute power and would love to move some stuff off our homegrown cluster of spare hardware.