InsertCleverUserName rules here! Steve44 second him! I'm a stranger but I going to explain my point of view.
At the beginning, what is Azure?
Windows Azure is...[
^].
Excellent, now we need to understand the
benefits of Windows Azure[
^].
As a +10 years .NET developer I see many new patterns and ways to develop many apps. In these years I see that services is present and future in development.
So, you can go for Windows Azure. You need .NET by the way ;)
The right decision is not dependent on other people, depends solely on you. If you are good in what you doing will be your right decision.
Best regards.