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/
This is great news for mobile developers. Now you leverage the cloud to simplify the complexity of supporting multiple devices. I am planning to start testing the toolkit in the following days, and will report my results. Click here to open link…
Great post from Jim O'Neil on running PowerBuilder applications on Azure, as well as compatibility with SQL Azure, the Windows Azure AppFabric Service Bus, and Windows Azure Storage. Click here to open link…
I have updated the links on my blog to reflect that the October 2012 release of the Windows Azure Training Kit is available now. A new page has been added to the main Windows Azure website, where you can find more information on how to use it. Among the changes and new features that you…
Today, my colleague Silvano Coriani pointed me to this excellent article about SQL Azure Performance and Elasticity. This is a common topic of conversation when I talk to Microsoft ISVs, and should give you a good understanding of best practices and optimization of SQL Azure databases. Click here to open link…
I've been getting a lot of questions regarding Load Balancing in Windows Azure during the last few days, specifically on how to achieve Sticky HTTP sessions when required. Ryan Dunn posted a great article on how to achieve this via a socket listener… Click here to open link…
One of the biggest challenges that companies face when migrating applications to Windows Azure is going from a single to a multi-tenant approach, which means that some of the compute and data resources are shared by their customers. We take a look at four different areas affected by this process: – Identity and security –…
