WINDOWS AZURE PLATFORM
Reference: 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
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CLOUD MODELS
GAE vs Azure vs EC2
 Other cloud data centers Rackspace and GoGrid
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THE WINDOWS AZURE DEVELOPER
PORTAL
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Where is entry point into this technology?
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Microsoft Windows Visual Studio.net
ASP.NET
Windows Live ID
Azure SDK and tools
Special feature
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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
WINDOWS AZURE PLATFORM AND SDK
Development Env.
/Runtime
Azure
Development
Fabric
Development
storage
Table services
Blob services
Queue services
OS; Vista;
ASP.NET
Application
Web cloud
service
Worker
cloud service
Workflow
service
Azure Production
Runtime
Azure cloud fabric
Azure Storage
Services
Windows Azure
OS
Cloud services; .net services; service bus; SQL
services
READING MATERIAL
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David Chappell’s work.