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/
Great blog entry from the SQL Azure team on using the uniqueidentifier type (GUIDs) in SQL Azure databases, including pros / cons, and workarounds. Click here to open link…
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All that you wanted to know about running TFS (Team Foundation Server) on the Windows Azure platform. Click here to open link…
In my latest MSDN Magazine article, I compare Windows Azure queues Vs. Service Bus queues from a developers perspective, showing how to perform the most basic operations: create a queue, send and receive messages, send authentication credentials to both services. I hope that you find it useful. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/jj159884.aspx
Great news for SQL Azure subscribers! Microsoft announced last Tuesday significant changes to the pricing structure, resulting in 48% to 75% savings for databases larger than 1GB. Also, the 100MB database option enables customers to get started using this cloud-base relational DB engine at half of the previous price. More information after the jump… Click…
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…
