The new Windows Azure pricing calculator lets you pick compute, database, storage, bandwidth, CDN and Service Bus capacity based on your needs. Along with predicting your expected monthly costs, the pricing calculator then recommends the most cost effective offer for you to purchase Windows Azure platform services. You can access the pricing calculator here:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/pricing-calculator/
Deploying more than one instance of your web-facing role enforces the Windows Azure Compute Service Level Agreement (SLA). See the full blog entry from the Azure team… Click here to open link…
The Windows Azure team published today a post about one of the ISVs that I've been working with: Digital Folio. In the article, they share their experience choosing and using the different storage options that the Microsoft cloud platform offers, specifically Windows Azure storage tables and SQL Azure databases… which, by the way, it is…
After an overwhelming number of email messages, feedback and comments based on our previous Windows Azure Insider column, this month Bruno and I continue the conversation around the Internet-of-Things and Windows Azure, incorporating a hands-on approach to using the Service Bus to control an Arduino device using a Windows Phone client. We had a lot…
I had the opportunity last night to do a presentation about Windows Azure for the Denver Visual Studio User Group – http://www.denvervisualstudio.net/. One of the topics that we discussed was using IntelliTrace for debugging purposes on Azure, somebody in the audience pointing out that this was not recommended by Microsoft for production environments. Since I was…
New Azure Datacenter in the UK, just announced… Click here to open link…
Link to PDC 2010 session that shows different techniques to scale-out SQL Azure Databases, including sharding and horizontal partioning. Click here to open link…
