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Discussions tagged with 'paas limitations' on WindowsForum.com focus on the constraints and trade-offs of Platform-as-a-Service offerings, particularly within hybrid and on-premises cloud environments. A key example is the deployment of Azure Stack Hub, which brings Azure-consistent PaaS and IaaS to local data centers. While this enables data sovereignty, local support, and disconnected operation, it also introduces limitations such as reduced scalability compared to full public cloud, potential hardware lock-in, and the need for on-site management. Users explore how these limitations affect compliance, latency-sensitive workloads, and hybrid cloud strategies, weighing the benefits of local control against the flexibility of pure PaaS.
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    Sure Launches Azure Stack Hub in Channel Islands for Local Hybrid Cloud

    Sure’s Channel Islands data-centre arm has added Microsoft’s Azure Stack Hub to its managed portfolio, giving local organisations the ability to run Azure-consistent infrastructure-as-a-service workloads inside on-island facilities while keeping data, compliance controls and support physically...
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