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/
Installing SQL Server on a VM Role is not a pattern that Microsoft recommends for different reasons (including local storage scalability), but this article exposes some interesting ways of using this approach for cost saving purposes. Click here to open link…
The SQL Azure team has posted important updates to the DAC framework, simplifying the process of importing / exporting data to SQL Azure databases. Click here to open link…
Excellent blog entry describing options for Claims authentication. The required sign-in flow is sometimes hard to follow, and this was a great reference for me. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/alikl/archive/2010/09/23/windows-identity-foundation-wif-explained-web-browser-sign-in-flow-ws-federation-passive-requestor-profile.aspx
In the following days, I will be posting an article on the layered Architecture that I've been working on for the last few years (Azure compatible), but this article / project is a good introduction to this topic. Click here to open link…
If you downloaded version 1.3 of the Azure SDK, make sure to update your training kit as well. Click here to open link…
Excellent guide to follow Windows Azure sessions during PDC10… Click here to open link…
