Windows Azure intro session by Mike Martin. Includes tips, cloud models, the different services provided by Windows Azure. Contains info on websites, web/worker roles and how you can deploy and work with staging environments.
Check out the video on http://www.youtube.com/e2partners
10. Public Cloud Platforms
Platform as a Service (PaaS)
Private Cloud
Platforms
Microsoft
Dynamic
infrastructure
Toolkit for System
Center (Hyper-V
Cloud, AppFabric
Server)
Infrastructure as a service (IaaS)
For Scalable Web Apps
For Data-Driven Business
Apps
For Collaboration Apps
Hosters
Dynamic
DataCenter Toolkit
for Hosters (HyperV Cloud)
Windows Azure Platform
Dynamics CRM / xRM
Online
Office 365
Windows Live
Hosters
VMWare vSphere
(ESX, vCenter)
VMWare vCloud Initiative
(ESX, vCenter)
Others
Amazon
Amazon Web Services Web Services
GoGrid Cloud Hosting,
RackSPace, others
Google
AppEngine
Saleforce.com
Force.com
Google Docs
29. All features of a worker role + IIS 7, 7.5 or IIS 8.0*
ASP
.NET 3.5 SP1, 4.0 or 4.5* – 64bit
Hosts
Webforms or MVC
FastCGI applications (e.g. PHP)
Multiple Websites
Http(s)
Web/Worker Hybrid
Can optionally implement RoleEntryPoint
*for Windows Server 2012
30.
31.
32.
33. Web Role 1
instance #3
Request
Browser
Response
L
B
Worker Role 1
instance #2
instance #3
instance #1
instance #1
instance #0
instance #0
Database
Scale up
and down
Communications via
Queues and Tables
42. Web Role 1
instance #3
Request
Browser
Response
L
B
Worker Role 1
instance #2
instance #3
instance #1
instance #1
instance #0
instance #0
Database
Scale up
and down
Communications via
Queues and Tables
43. The binaries and definition
(csdef) file are zipped into
service package file
44. Web Role Inst #0
Web Role Inst #1
Worker Role Inst #0
Worker Role Inst #1
Update Domain 0
Update Domain 1
Worker Role Inst #2
Update Domain 2
76. Building blocks for distributed services
Access control
Network connectivity
Connect on-premise and Cloud applications
Caching
Windows Azure Services
Windows Azure management
Portal
On-premise development
Blobs, tables,
queues
APIs
On-premise management
Visual Studio, Azure SDK etc
Windows Admin
Server Tools