What are the advantages of using AppFabric Caching vs. hosting my own caching solution on Windows Azure?
Consistent with other Windows Azure Platform services, AppFabric Caching provides a true Platform as a Service (PaaS) model in which the cost and complexity of installing, configuring, and managing the infrastructure is hidden from you. All you do is provision and configure the service. This means that the total cost of ownership can be significantly lower over the lifetime of your application. The table shown here summarizes several advantages to a service vs.