WINDOWS AZURE PLATFORM Reference Cloud Computing with Windows

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, offpremises Reduce cost and risks of building and extending onpremise resources Reduce the effort and cost of IT managment

CLOUD MODELS GAE vs Azure vs EC 2 Other cloud data centers Rackspace and Go. Grid

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

WINDOWS AZURE PLATFORM AND SDK Development Env. /Runtime Azure Development Fabric Development storage Table services Blob services Queue services Application Web cloud service Azure Production Runtime Azure cloud fabric Worker cloud service Workflow service Azure Storage Services Windows Azure OS OS; Vista; ASP. NET Cloud services; . net services; service bus; SQL services

READING MATERIAL David Chappell’s work.