Is distributor not needed in Azure setup?

Question

I read somewhere that a Distributor is needed when the queues are local on specific servers an you want to scale out. I want to use nServiceBus on Azure with Azure ServiceBus. The Azure ServiceBus is shared. Do I understand correctly that I can just fire up multiple workers on same or multiple worker roles with no distributor?

Answer 1

I asked Yves Goeleven (responsible for much of the NServiceBus on Azure implementation) this exact question a few weeks ago and the answer is no, a distributor is not necessary when running on Azure. You can point multiple workers at the same queue.