WINDOWS AZURE PLATFORMReference: Cloud Computing with Windows Azure Platform by Roger Jennings

PRIMARY USES OF AZURE

Build, modify and distribute applications to the Web with minimal on-premise resources

Perform services such as large-volume storage, batch processing, intense or high volume computations, off-premises

Reduce cost and risks of building and extending on-premise resources

Reduce the effort and cost of IT managment

CLOUD MODELS

GAE vs Azure vs EC2 Other cloud data centers Rackspace and

GoGrid

THE WINDOWS AZURE DEVELOPER PORTAL Where is entry point into this technology?

Microsoft Windows Visual Studio.net ASP.NET Windows Live ID Azure SDK and tools

Special feature Development fabric Development and production environments Windows Azure hosted services Storage accounts, storage services SQL Azure Fabric Service bus Tables and blobs Web and worker roles Access control services, workflow services

Development Env. /Runtime

Azure Production Runtime

Azure Development

Fabric

Development storage

Table servicesBlob services

Queue services

OS; Vista; ASP.NET

Azure cloud fabric

Azure Storage Services

Windows Azure OS

WINDOWS AZURE PLATFORM AND SDK

Application

Web cloud service

Worker cloud

service

Workflow service

Cloud services; .net services; service bus; SQL services

READING MATERIAL

David Chappell’s work.