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There is a nice article on Azure AD on the things to consider when thinking about working with Azure Active Directory. "Microsoft's identity and access management (IAM) strategy has mostly been playing out in the cloud with its Azure AD service." "Microsoft has three components that power its Azure IAM solutions." Azure cloud computing services, which serve as Microsoft's infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) solution Azure AD Premium, [..] Microsoft's "Identity Management as a Service" offering (abbreviated as "IDaaS"). Microsoft's IDaaS provides IAM services for Azure services that are built on the Azure platform. "identity bridge" solutions. An identity bridge is an on-premises component that's used to synchronize local directories to Microsoft's IDaaS and enable single sign-on to IDaaS. Microsoft's identity bridge solutions can bridge Kerberos and LDAP to JSON over REST, as well as SAML. Mark Dio...

Quite moderate minimum requirements for the basic hardware requirements, but depending on usage (as always) the more RAM the better. Processor Minimum: Single processor with 1.4 GHz (x64 processor) or 1.3GHz (Dual Core) Memory Minimum: 512 MB RAM Disk Space Requirements Minimum: 32 GB or greater Usually the question also goes hand-in-hand with the other tasks that machine can perform: "There are certain roles that typically get folded in with the domain controller in all but the biggest networks (e.g. DNS/DHCP/WINS/Cert Server) with little harm." "There are some that get folded into a DC and will cause performance issues on all but the smallest networks (e.g. File Server/intranet server/WDS Server) but these issues are probably manageable depending on load. These previous two classes of role are a case of a balancing act, how concerned you are about performance on your DCs vs. the resources you have available to provision your network. It's b...