Azure Stack itself has two different ways of how it could be set up:
- Connected scenario
- Disconnected scenario
Both scenarios provide different features and are somehow valid for different customer scenarios, which will be described in detail now.
The connected scenario means that Azure Stack is directly connected to the internet and relies on the following features that are being provided by Azure:
- Azure Active Directory for authentication
- Azure Marketplace syndication (as a possible option)
- Azure billing (as a possible option)
Azure AD authentication and Marketplace syndication are nice features, because you will not have to provide an on premise solution for them. The other side is that it needs to be setup with an Azure subscription where the billing feature relies on it too. So, the customers will receive a bill for the Azure and Azure Stack based scenarios.
In regards to costs for Azure Stack, there is no further need on payments to Microsoft, because everything...