Can we run windowservice or EXE in Azure website or in Virtual Machine?

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Published on 2012-09-12T09:19:43Z Indexed on 2012/09/12 9:38 UTC
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I have experienced with cloud service/hosted service on Azure. However regarding another project i am confused in selection in terms of functionalities.

I have project (2 tier asp.net app) with that i need to run windowservice or exe which will do some functionality every day (like fetch data) so my confusions are as below

Regarding Azure website

Can i access RDP if i'll move to reserved instance?
can i run windowservice/exe ?

Regarding Virtual Machine

Is it same as dedicated server?
can i use WASD as database from application reside in same? I think i can run any exe and installed anything however azure is going to recycle this and if yes then what happened on recycling?
can i use new window server 2012 (VHD) in that?

Azure website & VM both are in preview mode so is it reliable to use it as production version?

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