Bootstrapping Your Startup onWindows Azure

Nathan TottenTechnical EvangelistMicrosoft

Johnny HalifeLead DeveloperMural.ly

Michael WashamSr Technical EvangelistMicrosoft2-009

How Windows Azure Can Help

Start Small Even Free.. Quickly Prototype and Deploy

Rinse and Repeat

Success? Scale Up (Scale Down)Go Global

Windows Azure?

8 Data Centers

24 CDN Endpoints

Use Existing Skills

Open Sourcehttps://github.com/WindowsAzure

How to Build on Windows Azure?

Webcasts, Events & Showschannel9.msdn.com

Windows Azure Developer Centerwww.windowsazure.com > Develop

Windows Azure Support

The most important part of this presentation

Saving Money

90 Day Free Trialtrial containscompute / 750 small compute hours per monthweb sites / 10 web sites (Free Beyond the Trial)mobile services / 10 mobile services (Free Beyond the Trial)relational database / 1 SQL databaseSQL reporting / 100 hours per monthstorage / 35GB with 50,000,000 storage transactionsbandwidth / unlimited inbound & 25GB outboundcdn / 20GB outbound with 500,000 transactionscache / 128MBservice bus / 1,500 relay hours and 500,000 messages

Completely Free Stuff

Windows Azure Free Services• web sites / 10 web sites • mobile services / 10 mobile services

What else can you get for free?

NewRelic: Application Monitoring

AppDynamics Lite: Application Monitoring

Bing Search API: 5000 Transactions

MongoLab: 500 MB MongoDB with support

ClearDB: 20 MB MySQL with 4 Connections

SendGrid: 6000 Free Emails per Month

D&B: Business Insight with 10 Transactions

Microsoft Translator: 2000000 Transactions

Weather Central: 2500 TransactionsWeather Trends International: 100 Transactions

Have an MSDN Subscription?

Windows Azure Benefits Included• Professional up to $1,500• Premium up to $2,100• Ultimate up to $3,700

Getting Started – BizSpark MSDN Azure Offer

Great for initial development and test Free subscription for each developerCan set automatic cap to prevent charges

BENEFITS INCLUDE:ULTIMATE ($3700)

Compute 1500 hours of small instances

Storage 30GB

Transactions 2M

Bandwidth 35GB out / free in

Databases 5GB Web Edition

Caching 128MB cache

Access Control 500K

Service Bus 5 connections

Move to Windows Azure for BizSpark Plus when you are ready to launch your application or service

Who Qualifies?• Actively engaged in development of a software-based

product or service that will form a core piece of its current or intended business

• Privately held • In business for less than 5 years• Bringing in less than US $1 million in annual revenue.

Want to Learn More?• http://www.microsoft.com/bizspark/

Bootstrapping a Startup with Windows AzureDEMO

Prototype Cost Estimate

GitHub Repo: $7.00

Bandwidth (6GB): $0.12

Windows Azure Websites: $0.00

Total Cost: $7.12

Beta Cost Estimates

Bandwidth (6GB): $0.12

Windows Azure Websites: $9.36 (Shared)

Total Cost: $16.48

GitHub Repo: $7.00

Launch – Cost Estimates

MongoDB (500MB): $0.00

Bandwidth (6GB): $0.12

Windows Azure Websites: $115.20 (2 Small Reserved)

Total Cost: $125.65

Table Storage: $3.33 (10 Million Txns + 25GB)

GitHub Repo: $7.00

Some Real Startups on Windows Azure

http://mural.ly

With Windows AzureWrap Up Start Cheap and Even Free

Easily Deploy and Scale Your Apps

http://www.microsoft.com/bizspark/

Questions

• Follow us on Twitter @WindowsAzure

• Get Started: www.windowsazure.com/build

Resources

Please submit session evals on the Build Windows 8 App or at http://aka.ms/BuildSessions

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