Working with Azure Virtual Machine (VM) - my experience

jonespossibly   I'm not quite sure what you mean by "on a VM other than this".  I have PBI running on a VM in Azure:  we use a Standard E8as v4 (8 vcpus, 64 GiB memory).  We have attached a 128G OS disk, and 

Premium SSD LRS drive 256G Max,  IOPS:1100, Max throughput (MBps) 125.  So the machine is really big.  It mirrors a computer at our office, actually, that we do our dev and uploading etc. work on.  Super fast.  The machine costs about $1 per hour to run and the disks aren't crazy expensive at all for our use.  The disk...can't remember, but it's small money.

We turn it on and off readily when we need it or do not...and all the data that it absorbs is located on DropBox...which we syncronize automagically to the VM disks when it fires up.  This isn't a big drain on machine time since you can manage that pretty simply through Dropbox smart sync.  We run SQL on it and PBI and it's really reliable and easy.  On the VM, we keep our models "Online only" until we're using them.  Same for some data sets.  

AND you can have multiple people access the VM from where ever they are (one at a time).  We have a SQL guy in a different time zone using it for SQL work related to the models...and others use the VM for PBI.  Obviously we have to coordinate if we just want to share one VM, but you get the idea.  It's a terrific resource for us.

Hope this is something like what you are wondering about.
Tom