Understanding The Azure Platform November 09

Understanding Azure
David Gristwood
Application Architect, Microsoft
blogs.msdn.com/david_gristwood

Why a Cloud Platform?
Reduce capital & operations costs
Simplify application deployment & management
Simplify scaling to internet scale
Cost effectively handle peak loads
Focus on new functionality & not infrastructure

RNLI & Windows Azure
www.aws.net/services/cloud-services/case-study

The Azure Philosophy

Azure is about Scale
Azure is designed from the ground up for true Internet scale
Builds on our existing on-line properties and services
Supports the “Scale Fast, Fail Fast” model to ride the peaks and troughs
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Characteristics of Azure Applications
“Elasticity”
Need massive scale
Need high reliability
Have variable load
Have short or unpredictable lifetime
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Helps your Systems Scale
Most architecture is hidden inside code
Azure encourages you to define your application into constituent parts
Azure can scale the parts of your application as appropriate
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Flexible Architecture
Systems evolve over time
Cloud is not an “all or nothing” proposition
Azure makes it easier to extend to the cloud
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Opening up the Cloud
Allow developers to apply their existing skills to the cloud
Support for .NET, Ruby, PHP, Java
Interoperability with any platform, tools or technology
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Flexible Business Model
No up front hardware purchase
Pay as you go costing model
Ideal in current economical climate
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Data Centers

Windows Azure Platform Availability
2010
Northern Europe
North Central USA
2010
2010
Eastern Asia
Western Europe
South Central USA
2010
Southeast Asia

Delivering an Efficient & Sustainable Cloud
Microsoft has run Online Servicessince 1994
1st MSFT datacentre built in 1989
Running Online Services 24x7x365
MSN launched beta in 1994/public in 1995
Global service delivery to 59 markets/36 languages
∙ 30B Live ID authentications/month ∙ 2B Bing queries/month
∙ 10B MSN page views/month ∙ 240B Messenger messages/month
Global Infrastructure to Run Your Services World Wide
Quincy, WA: Approx 500K sq ft, hydro-powered
San Antonio, TX: Approx 475K sq ft, recyclable water
Chicago, IL: Approx 700K sq ft, water economization
Dublin, Ireland: Approx 303+K sq ft, air economization

Chicago Datacentre – Scalable, Sustainable
One of world’s largest datacentres using containers, on-line on July 2009
Cost $500 million, 700k sq ft facility (approx 16 football fields)
30 MegaWatts today, 60 MW for future use
ISO 27001:2005 Accreditation
SAS 70 Type I and II Attestations
40 ft containers with 1800-2500 servers
Density of 10 times amount of compute in equivalent space in traditional datacentres
Optimizes efficiency, reduces wastes and carbon footprint
Delivers an average PUE of 1.22
Plug-and-play infrastructure = Rapid Deployment

Dublin Datacentre
First Mega Datacentre built outside the US, on-line on July 2009
Cost $500 million, 303+sq ft facility and growing
EU Datacenter Best Practice Award Winner
Stand-alone Server Pods
Environmentally Sustainable
Free Air-Cooling via Air-Side Economization
50% less energy use vs. traditional facilities
1 % water use vs. traditional facilities
1.25 PUE
5.4MegaWatts today, 22.2 MW for future use
ISO 27001:2005 Accreditation
SAS 70 Type I and II Attestations

The Azure Platform

The Azure Services PlatformThe Big Picture
AppFabric
SQL Azure
Applications
Windows Azure
Applications
Others
Mobile
Desktop
Server

SERVICES
SERVICES
SERVERS
SERVERS
Applications
Available
Now
Developer Tools
Programming Model
Beta at PDC
Ship in 2010
Application Services
Beta 1
Relational Database
v4
Beta in 2010
Operating System
“Cloud”
CTP
Systems Management

Windows Azure

Application
Compute
Storage
Fabric
Config
Windows AzureWindows in the cloud
AppFabric
Applications
SQL Azure
Windows Azure
Applications
Mobile
Desktop
Server
Others

Web vs Worker Role
Worker Role
Web Role
System Host
IIS Host
Your Code
Your Code

Common Azure Pattern
Worker Role
Web Role
Queue
Storage
Blob
Storage

Storage
Storage*
Queue
Blob
Account
Tables
* New for 2010 - “Drives” – durable NTFS volumes built on Blob storage

Blobs
Blobs
Containers
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Pictures
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Tables
Entities
Tables
Genre = …
Title = …
Movies
Genre = …
Title = …
Actors
Name = …
DOB = …

Partitions and Rows

Blobs
Blobs
Containers
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Photo2.png
Pictures
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Queues
Messages
Queues
“Body1”
“Body2”
ThumbnailJobs
“Body3”

Development Fabric and Storage
Local Machine
Windows Azure Simulation Environment
Development Storage
Development Fabric

Portal

Windows Azure for Application Developers
Hosted
Service
Portal
SDK
Storage
Develop
Run
Deploy

The Fabric

Fault Domains

Lights-Out Service Management
Create services at the developer portal
Manage services programmatically using the Service Management API
Use in combination with diagnostics API to build a feedback loop

Service Upgrade Models
In-place rolling upgrade
Role instances are spread over update domains
Roles are updated one update domain at a time
Service remains available during upgrade
Real-time hot swap
Swap service endpoints of old/new version
Enables complex architectural changes
Planned downtime
Stop and replace service with new version

SQL Azure

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“SQL Server in the Cloud”
Alternative to Windows Azure storage
Focused on SQL Server core database services
Accessed via TDS
Supports a subset of T-SQL for SQL Server 2008
Limited to 1Gb or 10Gb database

SQL Azure Database
Highly scaled out relational database as a service
Relational database service
SQL Server technology foundation
Highly symmetrical
Highly scaled
Database “as a Service” – beyond hosting
Browser
SQL Azure Database
(Windows Azure Compute)
SOAP/REST
HTTP/S
Astoria/REST - EDM
HTTP/S
App Code
(ASP.NET)
SQL Server Reporting Server
(on-premises)
Customer Value Props
Self-provisioning and capacity on demand
Symmetry w/ on-premises database platform
Automatic high-availability and fault-tolerance
Automated DB maintenance (infrastructure)
Simple, flexible pricing – “pay as you grow”
Windows Azure
Compute
T-SQL (TDS)
T-SQL (TDS)
SQL Azure
Database
MS
Datacenter
- AD Federation (LiveId /.NetSvcs ACS)

Microsoft SQL Azure T-SQL

Codename “Dallas”

Information as a Service
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Data or functionality that is “of value to many” – enabling applications, reports, BI analysis, etc…
Examples include GIS/Spatial, traffic, movie show times, crime, real-estate sales, financial data, navigation, census data, reviews, etc…
Various Classifications:
Commercial: clean, supported, and regularly updated from ISVs and Content Providers
Trusted Public Domain: clean, unsupported data from academia and governments (Census, FDA, …)
Crowd Sourced: unreliable data in the public domain from anyone and everyone

Information in the Cloud
Codename “Dallas”
Atom 1.0, RAW
Find
Subscribe
Interact
Data Provider
Data Consumer

Accessing Data from “Dallas”

Commercial Information

Windows Azure Platform Consumption Prices
Pay as you go and grow for only what you use when you use it
Elastic, scalable, secure, & highly available automated service platform
Highly available, scalable, and self managed distributed database service
$9.99/month(up to 1 GB DB/month)
Compute
Web Edition
Per service hour
Per database/month
$0.12/hour
+ Variable Instance Sizes
Windows Azure platform AppFabric Service Bus & Access Control
Scalable, automated, highly available services for secure connectivity
Business Edition
Storage
Access Control
Service Bus
$99.99/month(up to 10 GB DB/month)
$0.015/10k Message Operations
Per GB stored & transactions
Per database/month
$0.015/10k Message Operations
Per Message Operation
Per Message Operation
$0.15 GB/month
$0.01/10K transactions
Prices shown in USD only
International prices are available

Windows Azure Instance Sizes
Variable instance sizes to handle complex workloads of any size
X Large
Large
Medium
Small
$0.96
$0.48
$0.24
$0.12
Per service hour
Per service hour
Per service hour
Per service hour
Unit of Compute Defined
Equivalent compute capacity of a 1.6Ghz processor (on 64bit platform)
X-Large
Large
Medium
Small
8 x 1.6Ghz
4 x 1.6Ghz
2 x 1.6Ghz
1 x 1.6Ghz
(high IO)
(high IO)
(high IO)
(moderate IO)
14 GB memory
7.0 GB memory
3.5 GB memory
1.75 GB memory
2000 GB
(instance storage)
1000 GB storage
(instance storage)
500 GB storage
(instance storage)
250 GB storage
(instance storage)

Windows Azure Platform Data Transfer
Priced per GB transferred/month (prices shown in USD)
North America Region
Asia Pacific Region
Europe Region
$0.10 GB Ingress
$0.15 GB Egress
$0.10 GB Ingress
$0.15 GB Egress
$0.30 GB Ingress
$0.45 GB Egress
N. Europe
Sub-region
N. Central – US
Sub-region
E. Asia
Sub-region
W. Europe
Sub-region
S. Central - US
Sub-region
S.E. Asia
Sub-region
No Charge For Off Peak Ingress Promotion (ends 6/30/10)
On-board to Windows Azure platform at no charge
Off peak times defined as: 10pm-6am Mon-Fri & from 10pm-Fri to 6am-Mon for weekends in each designated regional time zones below
Europe
WET = UTC
North America
PST = UTC-8
Asia Pacific
SST = UTC+8

TCO Analyzer Tool
Quickly determine “quantitative” value of using Windows Azure Platform services
TCO of development and running Windows Azure Platform vs. traditional delivery channels
Estimation “of” and conversion “to” on-premise solution to Windows Azure Platform services
TCO tool available today
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/tco/

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The information herein is for informational purposes only and represents the current view of Microsoft Corporation as of the date of this presentation. Because Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information provided after the date of this presentation. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.

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Understanding The Azure Platform November 09

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