An Overview of Windows Azure

Windows®Azure™ EBC Presentation
Aashish Dhamdhere
Senior Product Manager
Windows Azure

How We View Cloud
Fundamentals
Scale Out
Automated Service Management
High Availability
Multi-Tenancy
Considerations
Off Premises
On Premises
Location
Homogeneous
Heterogeneous
Infrastructure
CapEx
OpEx
Business model
Own
Lease/Rent
Ownership
Self
Third Party
Management

Software + Services
Client
PC
Phone
TV
Tools and Cross-Platform Support
Server
Cloud

The Windows Azure Platform
Developer Experience
Web and clouds
Third party cloud
Web applications
Use existing skills and tools.
Compute
Storage
Management
Management
Relational data
Connectivity
Access control
On-premises
LOB Applications
Composite applications

Windows Azure Architecture
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.

Windows Azure Architecture Details
The Fabric Controller automates load balancing and computes resource scaling
Security and Control Features include storage encryption, access authentication, and over-the-wire encryption using HTTPS. Industry certification is part of the Windows Azure roadmap.
Computation provides application scalability. Developers can build a combination of web and worker roles. Those roles can be replicated as needed to scale the applications and computational processing power.
Storage Services allow customers to scale to store large amounts of data – in any format – for any length of time, only paying for what they use or store.
Geographically distributed, state-of-the-art data centers host your applications and data, internet-accessible from everywhere you choose to allow.

Windows Azure Platform: An Illustration
Cloud
Applications
Applications
Windows Azure
SQL Azure
.NET Services
3rd Party Services
Others…

Windows Azure Value Proposition
Efficiency
Simplicity
Use existing skills
Simple model
Lower costs
Deployment flexibility
Focus
Agility
Applicationdevelopment
Revenue opportunities
Respond quickly
Grow customer base

Windows Azure Target Segments
Commercial SaaS: ISV’s create services for corporate customers
Enterprise Self-Tooling: Enterprises create services for their own consumption
Consumer SaaS: ISV’s create services for consumers

Windows Azure Platform Purchasing Models
Consumption
Volume licensing
Subscription
“Pay as you go and grow”
“Value for a commitment”
“Coordinated purchasing”
Available at PDC launch
Select offers at PDC
Planned for post PDC
Discounts for commitment
Plans for paymentpredictability
Unified purchasing through EA
Introduction to volumediscount
Low barrier to entry and flexibility
Optimized for cloudelasticity

Value differentiated by automated management,federated access control, and advanced message patterns
Value differentiated with scale, managed high availability,and self-provisioning
Value differentiated by service lifecycle management
Messages
Bandwidth
Web edition
Business edition
Bandwidth
Compute
Storage
Bandwidth
Per transactions
Per GB transferred
Per database/month
Per database/month
Per GB transferred
Per service hour
Per GB stored and transactions
Per GB transferred
$0.15/100K*
$0.10 GB Ingress*
$0.15 GB Egress*
$9.99/month*(1 GB)
$99.99/month*(10 GB)
$0.10 GB Ingress*
$0.15 GB Egress*
$0.12/hour*
$0.15 GB/month*
$0.01/10K storage transaction*
$0.10 GB Ingress*
$0.15 GB Egress*
*Price quoted is for U.S.

Windows Azure Platform Service Guarantee
.NET Service Bus endpoint willhave external connectivity
Message operation requests willbe processed successfully
Storage servicewill be available/ reachable (connectivity)
Your storage requests willbe processed successfully
Storage availability
Database availability
Role instance monitoring and restart
Compute connectivity
Serviceavailability
Database is connected to the internet gateway
Availability monitoring every 5-minute interval
Your service is connected and reachable via web
Internet facing roles will have external connectivity
All runningroles will be continuously monitored
If role is unhealthy, we will detect and initiate corrective state
Automated Systems Management
>99.95%
>99.9%
>99.9%
>99.9%

Windows Azure Platform Roadmap
Simple Service Templates
One Geo
ASP.NET
Medium Trust
Automated Service Management
Service Bus, Access Control
Admin Mode/VM Deployment
Geo Replication & On Premises
System Center Integration
Enterprise ID Federation
Distributed Queries & CLR
Analytics & reporting
Data Synch (DataHub)
Rich Service Templates
Multiple Geo Locations
Multiple Languages
Full Trust
Active Directory and Web ID
Relational & Virtualized Database
Auto DB Management
CTP
Future
Commercial release
Web 2.0
Partners
Enterprise

Partner Momentum
“ With Azure, your ability to deliver solutions becomes much faster and you can really innovate and be competitive.” – Jitendra Thethi, Principle Architect
“ Cloud computing democratizes access to carrier-class data center technology with better performance, higher efficiency, and lower costs; Microsoft’s Azure adds to that integration with a first-class development platform, decades of operations experience, and a developer toolbox of customizable services.” – Brian Mathews - VP Autodesk Labs
“ Making a reliable cloud application can be really hard, and Azure uses .NET and Visual Studio tools we already know and that we already know how to put out into a marketplace. That's very helpful for us and it's helpful for our customers.” – Erik Johnson, Research Director
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© 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Microsoft, Windows, Windows Vista and other product names are or may be registered trademarks and/or trademarks in the U.S. and/or other countries.
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.

Appendix

Fabric Controller
Interacts with a “Fabric Agent” on each machine
Monitors every VM, application and instance
Performs load balancing, check pointing and recovery

Compute in Windows Azure
GOAL:
SCALABILITY
Two instance types: Web Role & Worker Role
Windows Azure applications are built with
web role instances, worker role instances,
or a combination of both.
Scale out by replicating worker instances as needed.
Allow applications to scale
user and compute processing independently.
Each instance runs on its own VM (virtual machine), replicated as needed

Storage in Windows Azure
Tables: simply structured data, accessed using ADO.NET Data Services
GOAL:
SCALABLE, DURABLE STORAGE
Queues: serially accessed messages or requests, allowing web-roles and worker-roles to interact
Blobs: large, unstructured data (audio, video, etc)
Windows Azure storage is an application managed by the Fabric Controller
Windows Azure applications can use native storage or SQL Azure
Application state is kept in storage services, so worker roles can replicate as needed

Services Management in Windows Azure
GOAL:
AUTOMATED APPLICATION MANAGEMENT AND CONTROL
Fabric
The Fabric Controller automates service management

Building Solutions with the Windows Azure Platform
SQL Azure: Scalable, relational, Cloud-enabled database services
.NET Services: Framework for access control and communication between Cloud-aware applications

Subscription
“Value for a commitment”
Select offers at PDC
Discounts for commitment
Plans for paymentpredictability
Development accelerator
MSDN Premium
MPN subscription benefit: gold, certified, BizSpark, Empower
Build and test cloud applications
Accelerate cloud development projects
Flexible (on/off) consumption and use
Predictable payment and discounted price
MPN Partners receive a 5% discount

Partner
ecosystem
Technology
innovation
Why Microsoft?
Power
of choice
Developer
EXPERIENCE

Windows Azure Platform Business Value
Comprehensive technology platform
Robust capabilities and clear innovation roadmap
Reduce IT complexity with automated service management
Services availability
Technology promise that you can bet your business on
Clear and simple SLAs at the service level
Flexible business model
Customizable and predictable payment options
Exceptional value and custom offers for partners
Overall best value and TCO in the marketplace

Solving Complexities
Development needs
What we offer
How this is unique
Security and control
Available
Efficient
Interoperable
On-demand
Ubiquitous
Compute
APP
Services Management
Virtualized computation
Network
Storage
Storage services
State-of-the-art data centers

© 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Microsoft, Azure, Windows, the Windows logo, and [list other trademarks referenced] are trademarks of the Microsoft group of companies. 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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