>Most cloud solutions don't offer dedicated hardware. You can use a VM which allows OS level configuration but, for most purposes even that may be overkill. MS, for instance, offers a 'Web Role' which, essentially, allows you to upload and run one or more web applications on IIS7.

But, in my case, I would need VM as I not only have to run a Web server on that machine but Robot, which are desktop EXEs and so on. So, basically, I need to have a full drive access and I believe only a VM setup can allow me that. Is that correct?