Visual Studio in the cloud? [closed]

Question

Is there a cloud solution where

• Visual Studio runs on a virtual desktop hosted in the PUBLIC cloud (not on private physical server in my computer room)
• the virtual desktop can be reached from anywhere in the world
• the virtual desktop can talk to an actual remote SQL Server instance on another domain over a VPN
• the VPN would require no special software to be installed on the firewall of the remote domain
• the virtual desktop would be able to join other Windows domains (somewhere else in the world) as a domain-user so that Visual Studio can publish apps to LAN servers inside those domains?

Answer 1

Windows Azure Virtual Machines come to mind here. Now, granted, you will have to install and have licenses for all the software you wish to use (Though I think a MSDN license would cover you). But, you could easily deploy a VM, configure with all of your development tools then save that as a template. The template could then be redeployed in minutes to any number of VMs.

Azure virtual machines can do VPN and join domains.