windows azure

Nour Al-Khouja

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Outline

• Cloud computing• Windows Azure Platform• Why Windows Azure• Security in Windows Azure

On-PremisesServers

Hosted Servers

Cloud Platform

• Complete control• Complete responsibility• Static capabilities• coasty

• Renting machines, connectivity, software

• Less control• Fewer responsibilities• Lower capital costs • More flexible• Pay for fixed capacity,

even if idle

• Shared, multi-tenant infrastructure

• Virtualized & dynamic• Scalable & available• Abstracted from the

infrastructure• Higher-level services• Pay as you go

Cloud Computing

• Internet based computing• Set of connected servers enables developers to remotely:

– Install and run services– Store and retrieve data

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Windows Azure Platform

• Microsoft implementation of cloud computing.

• Group of cloud technologies, each provide services to application developers.

Windows Azure Platform

Windows Azure

Compute

Storage

Management

Windows SQL Azure

Windows Azure platform

AppFabric

Service Bus

Access Control

Marketplace “Dallas”

Windows Azure Platform

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Why Windows Azure?

• Flexible, scalable environment• Automated service management• Cost effective• Hardware abstraction across multiple servers• Powerful, familiar development environment• Availability and reliability• Ease of deployment

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Security

• Physical security of the data centers• Firewalls• Access Control• Authentication and authorization• Hardening of the servers and operating system

instances• Redundant internal and external DNS

infrastructure with restricted write access• Securing of virtual machine objects• Securing of static and dynamic storage containers

Questions?