Windows Azure Web SitesKris van der Mast

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Your presenter

Kris van der Mast

www.krisvandermast.com

@KvdM

Since 2007

Agenda

Portal & IntroDeploymentScalingPricingArchitecture

New and improved portal available (preview)

Quickly add new services

HTML 5 based

Portal

DemoSetup Wordpress

Portal

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Deployment

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What?Classic ASPASP.NETPHPNode.js

How?FTPWebdeployGit (Github + Codeplex)TFS

Deployment

Deployment

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GIT : FTP

GIT : FTP

GIT : FTP : Web Deploy : TFS Deploy

DemoFTP, WebDeploy, Git

Deployments

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Scaling

ScalingFree

• 10 sites• No domain mapping

• $0• 165Mb/day

Shared

• 100 sites• Domain mapping

• $0.02/hour• First 5Gb/month free

Reserved

• 100 sites• Domain mapping

• $0.12/hour• Pay as you go

Scaling

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Free account Free mode Move to

Shared

Map domain name

Traffic increase +

revenueScale

DemoFree, Shared, Reserved

Scaling

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Pricing

Pricing

Free

• $0

Shared

• $0.02/hour/site

Reserved

• $0.12/hour

Size CPU cores RAM Cost / Hour ($)

Small 1 1.7 Gb .12

Medium 2 3.5 Gb .24

large 4 7 Gb .48

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Pricing

During preview 33% reduction on price for Reserved

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Pricing: Shared vs Reserved / month

Shared Reserved

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Architecture

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Azure LB

Hosting DB

Storage Controller

IIS ARR(LB)

Web Worker

Site’sContent DB

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1. Request for a foo.com arrives to ARR/Load Balancer2. ARR gets info from Hosting DB about foo.com and determines which Web Worker (web server(s)) should host the site.

(WAWS is actively monitoring all Web Servers in the farm..3. ARR forwards request to the designated web Worker using4. Web Worker provisions site * de-provision inactive sites

5. Web Worker executes request accessing site’s content and site’s DB

Request Process Flow – Inactive Site (Cold Site)

Azure LB

Storage Controller

IIS ARR(LB)

Web Worker

Site’sContent

DB

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1. Request for a foo.com arrives on ARR/Load Balancer, which already “familiar” with foo.com 2. ARR remembers foo.com and route the request to the right web worker(s).

* Subsequent requests to this site get automatically routed to fully provisioned Web Worker.

3. Web Worker executes request accessing site’s content and site’s DB

Request Process Flow – Active Site (Hot Site)

Hosting Sites DB

Azure LB

Storage Controller

IIS ARR(LB)

Web Worker

X-DriveDeploymen

t Server

SQL Databas

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All DBs are running on SQL Azure

Azure Blobs as durable storage

Windows Azure Worker Role

Provisioning / API

Frontend

Metering

DWAS

Site (W3WP.exe)Site (W3WP.exe)

Site (W3WP.exe)

Monitor resources usage

Dynamic Web Activation Service

W3WP.exe IIS Application Pool Process

WAWS on Windows Azure Block Diagram

Summary

Portal & IntroDeploymentScalingPricingArchitecture

Resources https://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/home/scenarios/web-sites/ http://www.meetwindowsazure.com/DigitalChalkTalks

http://blog.krisvandermast.com/

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Thank you!

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