I recently came across these two [http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Building-a-SharePoint-2010-Pop-up-Lab-in-Windows-Azure] excellent videos [http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Automating-the-pop-up-and-pop-down-process-of-a-Windows-Azure-SharePoint-Pop-up-Lab] about the concept of a pop-up lab in Windows Azure using the IaaS approach of provisioning your own virtual machines. The “pop-up” part of this is that the lab is