Microsoft Cloud Computing - Windows Azure Platform

Microsoft Cloud Computing Platform
David Chou
architect
microsoft

Your
Own
Data Center
Someone
Else’s
Data Center
Many Views of Cloud Computing
Use (services, information, etc.)
Build (applications, data, etc.)
Host (software, database, etc.)

Private Cloud
Public Cloud
Many Views of Cloud Computing
Service Delivery Models
Software(as-a-service)
Platform(as-a-service)
Infrastructure(as-a-service)
Community
Dedicated
Hybrid Cloud
Cloud Deployment Models

(On-Premise)
Infrastructure
(as a Service)
Platform
(as a Service)
Service Delivery Models
Software
(as a Service)
You manage
Applications
Applications
Applications
Applications
You manage
Data
Data
Data
Data
Runtime
Runtime
Runtime
Runtime
Managed by vendor
Middleware
Middleware
Middleware
Middleware
You manage
Managed by vendor
O/S
O/S
O/S
O/S
Managed by vendor
Virtualization
Virtualization
Virtualization
Virtualization
Servers
Servers
Servers
Servers
Storage
Storage
Storage
Storage
Networking
Networking
Networking
Networking

IT as a Utility?

IT as a Strategic Value Enabler
Hybrid
Public
Private

Microsoft Cloud Strategy
Extendour enterprise software that runs core functions for business today to the cloud at internet scale
Developinnovative new services that expand the way end users, developers, and consumers can access and utilize the information they need, when they need it
Focus IT resources on business innovation; reduce complexity
Familiar, consistent, and unified development platform and tools
Interoperability support for heterogeneous platforms
Blended and hybrid solutions spanning on-premise and cloud-based options
Simplified management with financially-backed uptime guarantees

Fundamentals
Automated
Service
Management
High
Availability
Scale out
Multi-tenancy
Considerations
Location
On premises
Off premises
Infrastructure
Heterogeneous
Homogeneous
OpEx
CapEx
Business model
Lease/Rented
Owned
Ownership
Third Party
Self
Management

A Hybrid World
Scalability & Availability
Consistency & Control
On-Premise
Public Cloud
Manageability
Redundancy & Resiliency
Global Reach
Security & Privacy
Customizability
Ease of Provisioning
Abstract/Shared Resources
Dedicated Resources
Homogeneity
Heterogeneity

Platform of Choice

Microsoft Cloud History
(6 years)
4B emails/day
(7 years)
5B conf
min/yr
(15 years)
450M+
active users
(11 years)
2B queries/mth
(11 years)
320M+ active
users
(12 years)
Largest non-
ICP/IP cloud service
x100M users
(13 years)
550M
users/mth
(15 years)
450M+
active users

The Microsoft Cloud
Data Center Infrastructure
3rd most connected network worldwide
Purpose-built data centers to host containers at large scale
Cost $500 million, 100,000 square foot facility (10 football fields)
Adding ~10,000 servers / month
40 foot shipping containers can house as many as 2,500 servers
Density of 10 times amount of compute in equivalent space in traditional data center
Deliver an average PUE of 1.22
Power Usage Effectiveness benchmark from The Green Grid™ consortium on energy efficiency

The Microsoft Cloud
Data Center Infrastructure

The Microsoft Cloud
Server Container Deployment

The Microsoft Cloud
Globally Distributed Data Centers
Quincy, WA
Chicago, IL
San Antonio, TX
Dublin, Ireland
Generation 4 DCs

The Microsoft Cloud
Highly available, scalable, and consistent application fabric environment

Categories of Services
Application Services
Software Services
Platform Services
Infrastructure Services
The Microsoft Cloud

Application
Marketplace
Information Marketplace
Personal Data Repository
Workflow Hosting
Distributed Cache
Services Hosting
Frameworks
Claims-Based Identity
Federated Identities
Secure Token Service
Declarative Policies
Security
Registry
On-Premise Bridging
Service Bus
Connectivity
Transact-SQL
Data Synchronization
Relational Database
ADO.NET, ODBC, PHP
Data
Compute
C / C++
Win32
VHD
Dynamic Tabular Data
Blobs
Message Queues
Distributed File System
Content Distribution
Storage
Windows Azure Platform

“Dublin”
“Velocity”
Frameworks
“Geneva”
Security
Access Control
Project “Sydney”
Connectivity
Service Bus
SQL Azure Data Sync
Data
Compute
Windows Azure Platform
Table Storage
Blob Storage
Queue
Drive
Content Delivery Network
Storage

Case Study – Kelley Blue Book
About
kbb.com; vehicle data aggregation and publication service provider
14M unique visitors per month
Multiple physical data centers
Solution
Cloud-based overflow capacity
Windows Azure Web Role
SQL Azure database
Benefits
~$100,000 savings / year in hosting costs
Retire failover data center (27 Web servers & 9 SQL Servers)
<1% code changes needed for application compatibility
6 weeks reduced to 6 minutes to add server capacity

Case Study – Domino’s Pizza
About
Domino’s Pizza’s online ordering system
0 online txnsin 2005 to +20M in 2009 - need to improve system availability, scalability, and extendibility
Server capacity risk mitigation to support traffic spikes and disaster recovery needs
Solution
Cloud-based overflow capacity
Java/Tomcat app in Windows Azure
Windows Azure Table Storage
Benefits
Ability to handle peak loads during periods of extreme need (i.e. anticipated 50% volume spikes during SuperBowl)
Capability to make optimizations over time and balance use of compute resources across the on-premise and cloud to evolve IT as business evolves

Case Study – Coca-Cola Enterprises
About
An SAP on-premise instance which holds all the actual order history data, plus 2 enterprise LOB apps handling pricing, targeted promotions, & delivery schedules
~1 million customers worldwide
Solution
Cloud-based Web-enablement of on-premise assets
Windows Azure Web Role (20) + Silverlight
Web services integration via on-premise ESB endpoints
Benefits
“In a matter of weeks, we were able to see the fruits of our efforts very rapidly.“ – Kevin Flowers, Dir. Enabling Technologies
“The resilience and reliability of this platform is some of the benefits that we are seeing.” – EsatSezer, SVP & CIO

Case Study – Outback Steakhouse
About
Outback Steakhouse operates more than 1,230 restaurants in 50 states and 21 countries. The company’s annual revenues exceed U.S.$3 billion
Wanted to encourage repeat guests by creating a social networking presence
Solution
Viral marketing campaign on Facebook
Windows Azure Web Roles for main application
Windows Azure Worker Roles with caches and an asynchronous architecture to improve performance and scalability. SQL Azure and Windows Azure Table service used for background processing
Benefits
<8 weeks development time
Application launched on 11/5/2009 and achieved its goal of 500,000 fans within 18 days

Case Study - RiskMetrics
About
Complex Monte Carlo simulations to calculate financial risks
Daily risk analysis load equivalent to processing 4 trillion US Stocks
Existing on-premise HPC implementation
Solution
Massively scalable compute leveraging cloud capacity
Deployed on 2K Windows Azure instances; 10K+ planned in 2010
Windows Azure Worker Role
Windows Azure Blob and Queue
AppFabric Service Bus
Benefits
Elastic scaling to effectively meet customer demands
Turning elements of its peak load infrastructure from a fixed cost to a variable cost

Case Study - eBay
About
200M live listings; $60B in merchandise vol.
75B database calls / day
Automated, scalable, cost-effective data center solution
Solution
Windows Azure Platform Appliance
Windows Azure, SQL Azure
http://ipad.ebay.com
Benefits
Cloud extension of on-premise architecture
Improve user experience through automated capacity management, scalable processing and rapid response to experimentation and live tests
Focus engineering efforts on a better experience for buyers and sellers

Sign up at the Windows Azure Platform developers’ portal
Windows Azure access
Developer tools
White papers
Sample applications
Plan pilot applications, proofs of concept, and architectural design sessions with Windows Azure partners
http://www.azure.com

3 Key Takeaways
Platform-as-a-service fabric cloud
Hybridon-premisesoftware and cloudservices platform
Consistentprogramming modeland tools

Thank you!
david.chou@microsoft.com
blogs.msdn.com/dachou
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Windows Azure
Compute – instance types: Web Role & Worker Role. Windows Azure applications are built with web role instances, worker role instances, or a combination of both.
Operating system as an online service; with automated provisioning and services management
Development, service hosting, & management environment
.NET, Java PHP, Python, Ruby, native code (C/C++, Win32, etc.)
ASP.NET providers, FastCGI, memcached, MySQL, Tomcat
Full-trust – supports standard languages and APIs
Secure certificate store
Management API’s, and logging and diagnostics systems
Multiple roles – Web, Worker, Virtual Machine (VHD)
Multiple VM sizes
1.6 GHz CPU x64, 1.75GB RAM, 100Mbps network, 250GB volatile storage
Small (1X), Medium (2X), Large (4X), X-Large (8X)
In-place rolling upgrades, organized by upgrade domains
Walk each upgrade domain one at a time
Each instance runs on its own VM (virtual machine), replicated as needed
The Fabric Controller communicates with every server within the Fabric. It manages Windows Azure, monitors every application, decides where new applications should run – optimizing hardware utilization.
Guest VM 3
Guest VM 2
Guest VM 1
Host VM
Maintenance OS
Guest VM 1
Host VM
Host VM

SQL Azure
Highly available, scalable, and consistent distributed relational database service; with geo-replication and geo-location of data
VM 5
VM 6
VM 4
DBA role places more focus on policy/logical management
SQL Server
SQL Server
SQL Server
SQL DB
SQL DB
SQL DB
Shared infrastructure at SQL database and below
Each user database is replicated to one or more servers (configurable based on SLA)
Client requests are routed to current “primary server” for read and write operations (based on SQL session)
Security, lockdown and isolation enforced in SQL tier
Highly scalable and state-of-the-art HA technology
Automatic failure detection; client request re-routed to new primary on failure
High SLA guarantee using logical replication (hot standby replicas)
Automatic management, self-healing and load balancing across shared resource pool
Security Model
Uses regular SQL security model
Authenticate logins, map to users and roles
Authorize users and roles to SQL objects
Supports standard SQL logins
Logins are username + password strings
Service enforces use of SSL to secure credentials
Upcoming support for AD Federation, WLID, etc.
Connectivity Model
Connect using common client libraries
ADO.NET, OLE DB, ODBC, etc.
Clients connect to a database directly
Cannot hop across DBs
UserDB1
UserDB2
UserDB3
UserDB4
UserDB1
UserDB2
UserDB3
UserDB4
UserDB1
UserDB2
UserDB3
UserDB4
SQL Azure database provisioning (databases, accounts, roles, …, metering, and billing)
Scalability and Availability: fabric, failover, replication, and load balancing

Windows Azure platform AppFabric
Internet-scoped overlay-network bridging across IP NATs and firewalls with federated access control
Service Bus
Expose RESTful or SOAP services over the internet through firewall and NAT boundaries
Communicate bi-directionally between apps and services in an interoperable manner
Choose relays, queues, routers, and other message patterns and types
Scale out naturally and reliably as apps and services grow
Access Control
Integrate authorization into apps to control “what users are allowed to do”
Federate with multiple identity systems across organizations and ID providers
Easily apply fine-grained access control rules
Secure Service Bus communications
Scale out naturally and reliably as apps and services grow

Web Role and Worker Role
Service Instance
Service Instance
Worker Role
Web Role
.NET in Windows Azure
default.aspx
RoleEntry Point
IIS
bind port(x)
SQL Database
http://instance:x
http://instance:y
Service
Bus
Access Control
http://app:80
Fabric Controller
Load Balancer
Table
Storage
Blob
Storage
Queue

Web Role and IIS/FastCGI with Native Runtime
Service Instance
Service Instance
Web Role
PHP in Windows Azure
php
-cgi
index.php
FastCGI
IIS
bind port(x)
SQL Database
http://instance:x
http://instance:y
Service
Bus
Access Control
http://app:80
Fabric Controller
Load Balancer
Table
Storage
Blob
Storage
Queue

Worker Role and Sub-Process Invoking Native Code
Service Instance
Java and Tomcat in Windows Azure
listen port(x)
Service Instance
Worker Role
Sub-Process
Tomcat
server.xml
Catalina
index.jsp
new Process()
RoleEntry Point
bind port(x)
get
runtime
info
SQL Database
JVM
http://instance:x
http://instance:y
Service
Bus
Access Control
http://app:80
Fabric Controller
Load Balancer
Table
Storage
Blob
Storage
Queue

Optimal Cloud Workload Patterns
“Growing Fast“
“On and Off “
Inactivity
Period
Compute
Compute
Average Usage
Usage
Average
Time
Time
On and off workloads (e.g. batch job)
Over provisioned capacity is wasted
Time to market can be cumbersome
Successful services needs to grow/scale
Keeping up w/growth is big IT challenge
Complex lead time for deployment
“Unpredictable Bursting“
“Predictable Bursting“
Compute
Compute
Average Usage
Average Usage
Time
Time
Unexpected/unplanned peak in demand
Sudden spike impacts performance
Can’t over provision for extreme cases
Services with micro seasonality trends
Peaks due to periodic increased demand
IT complexity and wasted capacity

Benefits of Cloud Computing
BUSINESS
DEMANDS
TECHOLOGYDEMANDS
WINDOWS AZURE PLATFORM OFFERS
Cost-effective solution to manage IT resources
Less infrastructure to buy/configure and support
Lower TCO
Predictable cost
Focus on delivering compelling software not on managing infrastructure
Monetize new offering quickly without investment in billing and other enablement technologies.

Speed of development
Interoperability
Leverage existing IP
Simplified deployment
Scale up or down as business needs change
Go to market faster
Reliable service
SLAs
Security
Global data centers
Lower costs
Efficiency
Stay Competitive
Innovation
Generate New Revenue Quickly
Agility
Reduced
Risk
Reliability

Generalized Application Model
Always Available
Service-Oriented
Model-Driven
Scale-Out
Staged Production
Self-Service
Failure Resilient
Federated
Multi-Tenant
Elastic

Pricing
SUBSCRIPTION
CONSUMPTION
VOLUME LICENSING
“Pay as you go and grow”
Available at launch
“Coordinated purchasing”
Planned for FY11
“Value for a commitment“
Select offers Announced
Low barrier to entry and flexibility
Optimized for cloud elasticity
Discounts for commitment
Plans for payment predictability
Unified purchasing through EA
Introduction to volume discounts
Compute
$0.12 / hour
Storage
$0.15 / GB / month
$0.01 / 10K txns
CDN
$0.15 / GB (NA & EU)
$0.01 / 10K txns
Bandwidth
$0.10 in / GB; $0.15 out / GB
Web Edition
1GB – $9.99 / month
Business Edition
10GB – $99.99 / month
20GB – $199.98 / month
30GB – $299.97 / month
40GB – $399.96 / month
50GB – $499.95 / month
Bandwidth
$0.10 in / GB; $0.15 out / GB
Service Bus
$3.99 / connection
$1.99 / connection / pack (x5, x25, x100, x500)
Access Control
$1.99 / 100K txns
Bandwidth
$0.10 in / GB; $0.15 out / GB

Offers & Promotions
Development Accelerator
Designed to accelerate cloud app development. Flexible (on/off) consumption for scaling. Predictable payment and discounted price.
6 month subscription (38%-45% discount)
Offered as a unit (can order multiple units)
Cancel first 30 days; anytime after first 6 months
Overage at Standard Consumption rates
CORE($59.95/month)
Amount Included in Base
Compute 750 hrs/mo
Storage 10 GB/mo
Storage Transactions 1M/mo
NET - Messages 1M/mo
Data Transfers 7 GB In / 14 GB Out
EXTENDED($109.95/month)
Amount Included in Base
Same as Core except also includes 1 SQL Azure Business Edition DB (10 GB)
Introductory Free Offer
No-cost developer starter offer. Provides no-cost allocation to run a cloud service.
Available to all partner/customers
Limit of one per customer
Overage at Standard Consumption rates
NO-COST
Windows Azure
Compute 25 Hrs/month
Storage 0.5 GB/month
Bandwidth 0.5 GB/month
Storage Transactions 10K/month
SQL Azure
1 Web Edition DB (1GB DB) 90 day trial
Service Bus and Access Control Service
Messages 100K/mo
MSDN Premium
Mobilize committed .NET developer base. Enable them to build, deploy, manage multiple cloud projects w/in MSDN subscription.
Available to MSDN Premium subscribers with limit of one per subscription (one per Windows Live ID)
12-month term
Overage at partner Consumption rates
Limited time to sign up (thru 6/30/10)
After 6/30/10 quantities may be reduced
NO-COST
Windows Azure
Compute 750 hrs
Storage 10 GB
Storage Transaction 1M
SQL Azure - 3 Web DB (1 GB)
Service Bus and Access Control Service Messages 1 Million
Data Transfer 7GB In/14GB Out

Application Models
Web Hosting
Massive scale infrastructure
Burst & overflow capacity
Temporary, ad-hoc sites
Application Hosting
Hybrid applications
Composite applications
Automated agents / jobs
Media Hosting & Processing
CGI rendering
Content transcoding
Media streaming
Distributed Storage
External backup and storage
High Performance Computing
Parallel & distributed processing
Massive modeling & simulation
Advanced analytics
Information Sharing
Reference data
Common data repositories
Knowledge discovery & mgmt
Collaborative Processes
Multi-enterprise integration
B2B& e-commerce
Supply chain management
Health & life sciences
Domain-specific services

Building “Cloudy” Applications
Architecture Design
Multi-tenancy
Horizontal scaling
Service-oriented composition
Eventual consistency
Fault tolerant (expect failures)
Security
Claims-based access control
Federated identity
Data encryption & key mgmt.
Management
Policy-driven automation
Aware of application lifecycles
Handle dynamic data schema and configuration changes
Data & Content
De-normalization
Logical partitioning
Distributed in-memory cache
Diverse data storage options (persistent & transient, relational & no-SQL, text & binary)
Processes
Loosely coupled components
Parallel & distributed processing
Asynchronous distributed communication
Idempotent (handle duplicity)
Isolation (separation of concerns)

Presentation
ASP.NET C#, PHP, Java
Internet-Scale Application Architecture
Services
.NET C#, Java, native code
Asynchronous processes
Distributed parallel processes
Transient file storage
Connectivity
Message queues
Service orchestrations
Identity federation
Claims-based access control
External services connectivity
SERVICE BUS
ACCESS CONTROL
WORK
FLOWS
Storage
Relational & transactional data
Federated databases
Unstructured, de-normalized data
Logical partitioning
Persistent file & blob storage
Encrypted storage

Application Patterns
Cloud Web Application
User
Silverlight
Application
Web Browser
Mobile
Browser
WPF
Application
ASP.NET
(Web Role)
Web Svc
(Web Role)
Jobs
(Worker Role)
ASP.NET
(Web Role)
ASP.NET
(Web Role)
ASP.NET
(Web Role)
ASP.NET
(Web Role)
ASP.NET
(Web Role)
ASP.NET
(Web Role)
Private Cloud
Public Cloud Services
ASP.NET
(Web Role)
ASP.NET
(Web Role)
ASP.NET
(Web Role)
ASP.NET
(Web Role)
ASP.NET
(Web Role)
ASP.NET
(Web Role)
Enterprise Application
Application
Service
Enterprise Web Svc
Data
Service
Table Storage
Service
Blob Storage
Service
Queue
Service
Enterprise Data
Storage
Service
Identity
Service
Enterprise Identity
Service Bus
Access Control Service
Workflow
Service
User
Data
Application
Data
Reference Data

Composite Services Application
User
Silverlight
Application
Web Browser
Mobile
Browser
WPF
Application
ASP.NET
(Web Role)
Web Svc
(Web Role)
Jobs
(Worker Role)
ASP.NET
(Web Role)
ASP.NET
(Web Role)
ASP.NET
(Web Role)
ASP.NET
(Web Role)
ASP.NET
(Web Role)
ASP.NET
(Web Role)
Private Cloud
Public Services
ASP.NET
(Web Role)
ASP.NET
(Web Role)
ASP.NET
(Web Role)
ASP.NET
(Web Role)
ASP.NET
(Web Role)
ASP.NET
(Web Role)
Application
Service
Enterprise Web Svc
Data
Service
Table Storage
Service
Blob Storage
Service
Queue
Service
Enterprise Data
Storage
Service
Identity
Service
Enterprise Identity
Service Bus
Workflow
Service
User
Data
Application Data
Reference Data

Cloud Agent Application
User
Silverlight
Application
Web Browser
Mobile
Browser
WPF
Application
ASP.NET
(Web Role)
Web Svc
(Web Role)
Jobs
(Worker Role)
ASP.NET
(Web Role)
ASP.NET
(Web Role)
ASP.NET
(Web Role)
ASP.NET
(Web Role)
ASP.NET
(Web Role)
ASP.NET
(Web Role)
Private Cloud
Public Services
ASP.NET
(Web Role)
ASP.NET
(Web Role)
ASP.NET
(Web Role)
ASP.NET
(Web Role)
ASP.NET
(Web Role)
ASP.NET
(Web Role)
Application
Service
Enterprise Web Svc
Data
Service
Table Storage
Service
Blob Storage
Service
Queue
Service
Enterprise Data
Storage
Service
Identity
Service
Enterprise Identity
Service Bus
Workflow
Service
User
Data
Application Data
Reference Data

B2B Integration Application
User
Silverlight
Application
Web Browser
Mobile
Browser
WPF
Application
ASP.NET
(Web Role)
Web Svc
(Web Role)
Jobs
(Worker Role)
ASP.NET
(Web Role)
ASP.NET
(Web Role)
ASP.NET
(Web Role)
ASP.NET
(Web Role)
ASP.NET
(Web Role)
ASP.NET
(Web Role)
Private Cloud
Public Services
ASP.NET
(Web Role)
ASP.NET
(Web Role)
ASP.NET
(Web Role)
ASP.NET
(Web Role)
ASP.NET
(Web Role)
ASP.NET
(Web Role)
Application
Service
Enterprise Web Svc
Data
Service
Table Storage
Service
Blob Storage
Service
Queue
Service
Enterprise Data
Storage
Service
Identity
Service
Enterprise Identity
Service Bus
Workflow
Service
User
Data
Application Data
Reference Data

Grid / Parallel Computing Application
User
Silverlight
Application
Web Browser
Mobile
Browser
WPF
Application
ASP.NET
(Web Role)
Web Svc
(Web Role)
Jobs
(Worker Role)
ASP.NET
(Web Role)
ASP.NET
(Web Role)
ASP.NET
(Web Role)
ASP.NET
(Web Role)
ASP.NET
(Web Role)
ASP.NET
(Web Role)
Private Cloud
Public Services
ASP.NET
(Web Role)
ASP.NET
(Web Role)
ASP.NET
(Web Role)
ASP.NET
(Web Role)
ASP.NET
(Web Role)
ASP.NET
(Web Role)
Application
Service
Enterprise Web Svc
Data
Service
Table Storage
Service
Blob Storage
Service
Queue
Service
Enterprise Data
Storage
Service
Identity
Service
Enterprise Identity
Service Bus
Workflow
Service
User
Data
Application Data
Reference Data

Hybrid Enterprise Application
User
Silverlight
Application
Web Browser
Mobile
Browser
WPF
Application
ASP.NET
(Web Role)
Web Svc
(Web Role)
Jobs
(Worker Role)
ASP.NET
(Web Role)
ASP.NET
(Web Role)
ASP.NET
(Web Role)
ASP.NET
(Web Role)
ASP.NET
(Web Role)
ASP.NET
(Web Role)
Private Cloud
Public Services
ASP.NET
(Web Role)
ASP.NET
(Web Role)
ASP.NET
(Web Role)
ASP.NET
(Web Role)
ASP.NET
(Web Role)
ASP.NET
(Web Role)
Application
Service
Enterprise Web Svc
Data
Service
Table Storage
Service
Blob Storage
Service
Queue
Service
Enterprise Data
Storage
Service
Identity
Service
Enterprise Identity
Service Bus
Workflow
Service
User
Data
Application Data
Reference Data

Windows Azure Compute
Development, service hosting, & management environment
.NET, Java PHP, Python, Ruby, native code (C/C++, Win32, etc.)
ASP.NET providers, FastCGI, memcached, MySQL, Tomcat
Full-trust – supports standard languages and APIs
Secure certificate store
Management API’s, and logging and diagnostics systems
Multiple roles – Web, Worker, Virtual Machine (VHD)
Multiple VM sizes
1.6 GHz CPU x64, 1.75GB RAM, 100Mbps network, 250GB volatile storage
Small (1X), Medium (2X), Large (4X), X-Large (8X)
In-place rolling upgrades, organized by upgrade domains
Walk each upgrade domain one at a time
Compute

Windows Azure Diagnostics
Configurable trace, performance counter, Windows event log, IIS log & file buffering
Local data buffering quota management
Query & modify from the cloud and from the desktop per role instance
Transfer to storage scheduled & on-demand
Filter by data type, verbosity & time range
Compute

Windows Azure Storage
Rich data abstractions – tables, blobs, queues, drives, CDN
Capacity (100TB), throughput (100MB/sec), transactions (1K req/sec)
High accessibility
Supports geo-location
Language & platform agnostic REST APIs
URL: http://<account>.<store>.core.windows.net
Client libraries for .NET, Java, PHP, etc.
High durability – data is replicated 3 times within a cluster, and (Feb 2010) across datacenters
High scalability – data is automatically partitioned and load balanced across servers
Storage
Storage

Windows Azure Table Storage
Designed for structured data, not relational data
Data definition is part of the application
A Table is a set of Entities (records)
An Entity is a set of Properties (fields)
No fixed schema
Each property is stored as a <name, typed value> pair
Two entities within the same table can have different properties
No schema is enforced
Table Storage

Windows Azure Blob Storage
Storage for large, named files plus their metadata
Block Blob
Targeted at streaming workloads
Each blob consists of a sequence of blocks
Each block is identified by a Block ID
Size limit 200GB per blob
Page Blob
Targeted at random read/write workloads
Each blob consists of an array of pages
Each page is identified by its offset from the start of the blob
Size limit 1TB per blob
Blob Storage

Windows Azure Queue
Performance efficient, highly available and provide reliable message delivery
Asynchronous work dispatch
Inter-role communication
Polling based model; best-effort FIFO data structure
Queue operations
Create Queue
Delete Queue
List Queues
Get/Set Queue Metadata
Message operations
Add Message
Get Message(s)
Peek Message(s)
Delete Message
Queue

Windows Azure Drive
Provides a durable NTFS volume for Windows Azure applications to use
Use existing NTFS APIs to access a durable drive
Durability and survival of data on application failover
Enables migrating existing NTFS applications to the cloud
Drives can be up to 1TB; a VM can dynamically mount up to 8 drives
A Windows Azure Drive is a Page Blob
Example, mount Page Blob as X:
http://<account>.blob.core.windows.net/<container>/<blob>
All writes to drive are made durable to the Page Blob
Drive made durable through standard Page Blob replication
Drive

Windows Azure Content Delivery Network
Provides high-bandwidth global blob content delivery
18 locations globally (US, Europe, Asia, Australia and South America), and growing
Blob service URL vs. CDN URL
Blob URL: http://<account>.blob.core.windows.net/
CDN URL: http://<guid>.vo.msecnd.net/
Support for custom domain names
Access details
Blobs are cached in CDN until the TTL passes
Use per-blob HTTP Cache-Control policy for TTL (new)
CDN provides only anonymous HTTP access
Content Delivery Network

SQL Azure
Highly available, scalable, and consistent distributed relational database; geo-replication and geo-location of data
Relational database, provided as a service
Highly symmetrical development and tooling experience (use TDS protocol and T-SQL)
Highly scaled out, on commodity hardware
Built on the SQL Server technology foundation
Editions: Web (1GB), Business (10GB)
Data

SQL Azure Data Sync
Tools for data synchronization with SQL Azure
Connect on-premises apps with the cloud
Create cached-mode clients
Built on Microsoft Sync Framework and ADO.NET Sync Services
SQL Azure Data Sync

AppFabric Service Bus
Securely connect applications
Over the internet
Across any network topology
Across organizational boundaries
Primary application patterns
Eventing– notify applications and/or devices
Service Remoting– securely project on-premises services out to the cloud
Tunneling– app-to-app communication with NAT/Firewall traversal
Connectivity
Service Bus

AppFabric Access Control
Provides outsourcing of claims-based access control for REST web services
Key capabilities:
Usable from any platform
Low friction way to onboard new clients
Integrates with ADFS v2
Supports OAuth WRAP / SWT
Enables simple delegation
Used today by Service Bus and “Dallas”
Security
Access Control

“Geneva”
Next generation identity and access management platform
Claims-based access and single sign-on for on-premise and cloud-based applications in the enterprise, across organizations, and on the Web
“Geneva Framework“ (Windows Identity Foundation)
Provides .NET development tools, which includes pre-built, user-access logic that externalizes authentication from applications. It helps developers build claims-aware .NET applications, plus build custom security token services (STS)
“Geneva Server“
An STS for IT that issues and transforms claims and other tokens, manages user access and enables federation and access management for simplified single sign-on
“Geneva”
“CardSpace Geneva”
For helping users navigate between multiple logons for simplified single sign-on while providing complete user control and transparency for how personal information is shared

“Velocity”
Distributed in-memory cache platform for developing scalable, available, and highly-performance applications
Caches any serializable CLR object and provides access through simple cache APIs
Supports enterprise scale: tens to hundreds of computers
Configurable to run as a service accessed over the network
“Velocity”
Supports dynamic scaling and automatic load balancing
Supports continuous availability of cached data by storing copies on separate cache hosts
Integration with administration and monitoring tools such as Event Tracing for Windows (ETW) and System Center.

“Dublin”
Evolution of WAS/IIS and Windows App Server role to run and manage WF and WCF services
Enhances the hosting of Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and Windows Workflow (WF) in the Windows Process Activation Service (WAS)
Simplified deployment and management of WCF and WF services hosted in WAS
Configuration of persistence for durable workflows
Customizable tracking profiles with dedicated, queryable storage for tracked data
Customizable monitoring of hosted services
“Dublin”

“Dallas”
Information-as-a-service
Discover, acquire, and consume structured, blob, and real-time data to power any application – on any platform and any screen size
Brokerage Business – partner driven ecosystem and global reach to deliver data and functionality to developers and information workers
Analytics and Reporting – single click analysis to augment private data with public data
Built on Windows Azure and SQL Azure

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Microsoft Cloud Computing - Windows Azure Platform

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