GETTING STARTED
WITH WINDOWS
AZURE
DEVELOPMENT
Eric Nelson
Slide 1
GETTING “THE BITS”
Slide 2
HOW TO GET FREE AZURE HOURS…
WWW.AZURE.COM/OFFERS
No charge services allocation by offer
Premium, Ultimate & Cloud Essentials for
Free Trial
BizSpark
Partners
Introductory Special
Length of offer
Autoreview every 8
months with valid msdn
subscription
No end-date
published
Ends 30th June 2011
750 hours / month
750 hours / month
(x-small instance)
750 hrs x-small /
month
25 hrs small / month
10 GB
3 GB
500 MB
1,000,000 / month
250,000 / month
10,000 / month
5 / month
2 / month
2 / month
1,000,000 / month
100,000 / month
100,000 / month
3
1
1 (just first 3 months!)
Europe and North
America
7 GB in / month
14 GB out / month
3 GB in / 6 GB out
500MB in / month
500 MB out /month
Asia Pacific
2.5 GB in / month
5 GB out / month
Small or Extra Small
compute instance
Windows Azure
Storage
Storage transactions
AppFabric
SQL Azure
Service Bus
Connections
Access Control
Transactions
Web Edition
databases (1GB)
Data Transfers
Estimated value of offer
$112.50 pm/ $1800
total
500MB in / month
500 MB out /month
$55.40 pm
$50.70 pm for first 3
months; $45.51 per
month beyond
HOW TO STAY WITHIN FREE AZURE
HOURS…
• Usage beyond no charge limits is charged (credit card or
invoice)
• Using resources if Deployed/suspended in Staging or
Production
• Delete your packages to ensure no charge
MORE THAN WINDOWS AZURE?
• Cloud Essentials Pack also includes
• 250 seats of Microsoft Business Productivity Online Standard Suite seats
for internal use
• 250 seats of Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online for internal use
• Windows Intune to manage 10 devices for internal use (Available
calendar year 2011)
• A wealth of business, technical, and support guidance and resources
POWERED BY WINDOWS AZURE
http://bit.ly/ukmprhome
LAYING DOWN THE CODE
Slide 7
GREENFIELD, BROWNFIELD, PINKFIELD
http://wag.codeplex.com/
• BrownField
• Migration of a traditionally developed and hosted applications
• August Issue of MSDN Magazine: Tips for Migrating
• Microsoft Patterns and Practice Team: Moving Applications to the cloud
• GreenField
• Starting from scratch to build a global multi tenanted solution
Slide 8
DEMO
• Move a web application to Windows Azure
• Create a new web application with Windows Azure
• Development Fabric
• Portal
• Deployment
• Tools
Slide 9
GREENFIELD, BROWNFIELD, PINKFIELD
http://wag.codeplex.com/
• BrownField
• Migration of a traditionally developed and hosted applications
• August Issue of MSDN Magazine: Tips for Migrating
• Microsoft Patterns and Practice Team: Moving Applications to the cloud
• GreenField
• Starting from scratch to build a global multi tenanted solution
• PinkField
• Made up term 
Slide 10
SUMMARY
• Activate your Azure benefit in MSDN
• Use getting started resources
• http://azure.com/getstarted
• Profile you application in ‘Microsoft Platform Ready’
• http://bit.ly/ukisvfirststop
• Consider adding Cloud Essentials