Building An Application For Windows Azure And Sql Azure

Building an Application for Windows Azure and SQL Azure
Eric Nelson
Microsoft UK
http://bit.ly/iupdateable | http://twitter.com/ericnel | http://ukazure.ning.com

Session Objectives
Windows Azure Platform overview
Drill into Windows Azure
Drill into SQL Azure
Leave feeling confident that you can build your own applications

New online community http://ukazure.ning.com/

Windows Azure Platform 101

Windows Azure Platform
Windows Azure – Your code and data
SQL Azure Database – Your relational data
AppFabric* – Your messages
Code Data Relational Data

Roadmap
Taken a little while 
Summer 2007 Biztalk Services -> .NET Services -> AppFabric
March 2008 SQL Server Data Services -> SQL Data Services -> SQL Azure
October 2008 Windows Azure -> Windows Azure 
Jan 4 th went live – Yippeeeeeeeee!
February 1 st started charging – Boooo!
All teams active on new features
You can influence it www.mygreatwindowsazureidea.com

7 things that may surprise you
Azure is not just about “the next twitter”
You can use C++, Java, Ruby, PhP ...
It is free to try
There are hundreds of great 3 rd party tools
You can store up to 500TB of data
It offers a full relational database for £6
Millions of developers are “Azure ready”

Windows Azure

Windows Azure for Application Developers Portal Hosted Service Storage SDK

Product group alert! SDK Portal Code Data Relational Data

Development Fabric and Storage

Load Balanced Instances http://yourapp.cloudapp.net

Web vs Worker Role

Storage

Tables

Queues

Portal

To deploy you need an account
http://bit.ly/azure25
http://bit.ly/azuremsdnfree

SQL Azure

SQL Azure +

SQL Azure Application Architectures T-SQL (TDS) Application / Tools SQL Azure access from outside Code Far SQL Azure SOAP/REST HTTP/S SQL Azure access from within Datacenter Windows Azure T-SQL (TDS) Web Role ADO.NET Data Svcs/REST - EF HTTP/S SQL Azure Application/ Browser Code Near

Summary
Same Development Tools and Experience
Local and Cloud Based Environments
Rapid Cloud Development, Deployment and Maintenance
UK Site http://bit.ly/landazure
UK Community http://bit.ly/ukazure
My blog http://bit.ly/iupdateable

UK Pricing – standard rates
Windows Azure
Compute
Small instance (default): £0.0728 per hour
Medium instance: £0.1455 per hour
Large instance: £0.291 per hour
Extra large instance: £0.5819 per hour
Storage
£0.091 per GB stored per month
£0.0061 per 10,000 storage transactions
Content Delivery Network (CDN)
Service currently available as a Community Technology Preview (CTP) at no charge
SQL Azure
Web Edition – Up to 1 GB relational database
£6.055 per database per month
Business Edition – Up to 10 GB relational database
AppFabric
Access Control
£1.2062 per 100,000 transactions*
Service Bus
£2.4184 per connection on a “pay-as-you-go” basis*
Pack of 5 connections £6.0307*
Data Transfers
North America and Europe regions
£0.0607 per GB in
£0.091 per GB out
Asia Pacific Region
£0.1819 per GB in
£0.2728 per GB out
Inbound data transfers during off-peak times through June 30, 2010 are at no charge. Prices revert to our normal inbound data transfer rates after June 30, 2010.
£100 per month* - Highly Available Web Application + 0.5TB data 20 pence per day* - Highly Available SQL Server database

Feedback on Azure
Are you impressed or underwhelmed?
Is it relevant to you?
Where are we missing a trick?
What features do you need?
What could we do to help?
What blockers do you see?
Send to [email_address]
www.mygreatwindowsazureidea.com

And a very big thank you! http://bit.ly/landazure http://bit.ly/iupdateable

Appendix

UK Pricing – standard rates
Windows Azure
Compute
Small instance (default): £0.0728 per hour
Medium instance: £0.1455 per hour
Large instance: £0.291 per hour
Extra large instance: £0.5819 per hour
Storage
£0.091 per GB stored per month
£0.0061 per 10,000 storage transactions
Content Delivery Network (CDN)
Service currently available as a Community Technology Preview (CTP) at no charge
SQL Azure
Web Edition – Up to 1 GB relational database
Business Edition – Up to 10 GB relational database
AppFabric
Access Control
£1.2062 per 100,000 transactions*
Service Bus
£2.4184 per connection on a “pay-as-you-go” basis*
Data Transfers
North America and Europe regions
£0.0607 per GB in
£0.091 per GB out
Asia Pacific Region
£0.1819 per GB in
£0.2728 per GB out
Inbound data transfers during off-peak times through June 30, 2010 are at no charge. Prices revert to our normal inbound data transfer rates after June 30, 2010.

Screenshots

New Project

Add a Role

Write Some Code

Run and Debug Locally (Hit F5)

Deploy to the Cloud

Create Your Accounts

Deploy Your Service

Portal – Allocated

Portal - Run

Portal - Initializing

Portal - Busy

Portal - Ready

My Windows Azure screenshots

My SQL Azure screenshots

Server: Network Access Control
Each server defines a set of firewall rules
Determines access policy based on client IP
By default, there is NO ACCESS to server
Controlled using Firewall API (masterDB)
sys.firewall_rules, sys.sp_merge_firewall_rule and sys.sp_delete_firewall_rule

Server: Billing and Reporting
Usage metrics from views:
sys.bandwidth_usage
sys.database_usage
Bandwidth shows ingress/egress/type in KB
Database shows number/type

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