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Azure Active Directory and ADFS
No, you cant, as Azure AD is NOT any sort of replacement for "traditional" AD. You cannot "join" servers to it. You can however spin up Azure VM in the cloud and extend your on-premises AD with a DC running in Azure, and deploy AD FS as well. Take a look at the guidance here to get started: https://msdn.microsoft.com/library/azure/jj156090.aspx
I relook into your reply, if I have Azure Active Directory already setup on the Cloud and is sync via the Azure Active Directory connect (AAD Connect), can I just install an instance of AD FS on the Azure cloud and get the user to be authenticated via AD FS on Azure and validated by Azure Active Directory? Does it still require the on premise Active Directory then?
No, you cant, as Azure AD is NOT any sort of replacement for "traditional" AD. You cannot "join" servers to it. You can however spin up Azure VM in the cloud and extend your on-premises AD with a DC running in Azure, and deploy AD FS as well. Take a look at the guidance here to get started: https://msdn.microsoft.com/library/azure/jj156090.aspx
