Windows Azure is an open cloud platform that allows users to build, deploy, and manage applications across global datacenters managed by Microsoft. It provides various services including virtual machines, web hosting, mobile backends, databases, media services and more. Developers can build applications using any language or framework and integrate them with existing IT environments. Resources can easily scale up or down based on demand and Windows Azure ensures high availability and reliability through automatic patching and load balancing.

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platform that enables you to quickly build,
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network of Microsoft-managed datacenters. WINDOWS WORDPRESS
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framework. You can integrate your public cloud LINUX DRUPAL
applications with your existing IT environment.
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worldwide Content Delivery Network, language, framework or code editor to
you can build applications that build applications, including .NET, PHP, VHD 1 VHD 2 VHD 3
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provide the best experience even to Java, Node.js, Python and Ruby. Client
the most remote places. libraries are available on GitHub.
Virtual Machines can run both Windows and Linux operating systems. Create VMs from With Web Sites, you can share space in a VM or reserve an entire machine for your web site.
Virtual Hard Disk images stored as blobs. Create VHDs locally and upload them, choose from You can create sites with both SQL Database and MySQL databases, as well as deploy
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Windows Azure supports a Windows Azure features and services QUEUE portal to scale out to more instances.
deployment model that enables you to are exposed using open REST
upgrade your application without protocols.
downtime.
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SELF HEALING Use the Windows Azure robust
Windows Azure provides automatic OS messaging capabilities to deliver WORKER ROLE WORKER ROLE WORKER ROLE
and service patching, built in network hybrid solutions that run across the Broadcasters
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load balancing and resiliency to cloud and on-premises. Expand your WORKER ROLES
Content Owners
Enterprises
hardware failure. Windows Azure data center into the cloud with Virtual
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delivers a 99.95% monthly SLA. Networking.
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It is a fully automated self-service Windows Azure provides a rich set of
platform that allows you to provision applications services, including SDKs, WINDOWS 8
resources within minutes. caching, messaging and identity. SCRIPTS
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Quickly scale your resources based on You can store data using relational USER AUTH :-)
your needs. You only pay for the databases, NoSQL and unstructured
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resources your application uses. blob storage. You can use Hadoop and
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business intelligence services to mine WINDOWS
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security and compliance, from ISO SQL DATABASE TABLE STORAGE BLOB STORAGE
27001, SSAE 16, HIPAA BAA and E.U.
Model Clauses.
Cloud Services consist of Internet facing Web roles and Worker roles that run background tasks. Mobile Services is a turnkey backend solution running on Windows Azure servers that offers Media Services provide a selection of services for encoding and protecting streaming media
Web roles can offload computing jobs to Worker roles and can distribute work via queues to functions such as saving data, querying, managing identity and pushing notifications to such as videos and music. Drop off your high-resolution source content and convert it to
scalable pools of Worker roles. All roles can access data stores or other services. phone. Additionally, you can run scripts on the server to execute custom logic when doing multiple bit rates for playback on a variety of devices. Stream to HD, DVD and phones.
CRUD operations.
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With Cloud Services, you can quickly deploy and With Virtual Machines, you get full control over a server For applications that need a full featured relational Storage services provide multiple options for securely Based on Apache Hadoop, HDInsight simplifies working Caching helps applications scale and be more Windows Azure Active Directory is a modern, With Media Services, you can build workflows for the Windows Azure Virtual Network enables you to Windows Azure Connect provides an agent-based, Windows Azure Store provides quick discoverability,
manage multi-tier applications where Windows Azure in the cloud, and maintain it as your business requires: database-as-a-service, SQL Database offers a high-level managing data and are accessible via REST APIs: with big data through integration with tools like responsive under load by keeping data closer to REST-based service that provides identity management creation, management, and distribution of media in provision and manage virtual private networks (VPNs) in machine-to-machine connection between Windows seamless access and easy management for application
handles the details: provisioning, load balancing, health • Bring customized Windows Server or Linux images or of interoperability, enabling you to build using many of • Data is replicated at least three times in the same data Microsoft Office and System Center: application logic: and access control capabilities for cloud applications: Windows Azure – quickly and easily: Windows Azure and to securely link these with Azure services and on-premises resources such as services and data sets for developers, right from the
monitoring for continuous availability: select from a gallery the major development frameworks: center across physically separate fault domains, and • Fast reading and processing of large structured or • Choose between a managed, multi-tenant shared • Extend on-premises Active Directory to Windows • Create, manage and distribute content to many on-premises IT infrastructure: database servers and domain controllers: Windows Azure management portal:
• Use a dedicated IIS web server for hosting front-end • Migrate applications without changing existing code, • Only pay for what you use also geo-replicated to another data center unstructured data stores cache or one that uses existing or dedicated Azure and other cloud services devices and platforms (Xbox, Windows, MacOS, iOS, • Build traditional ‘site-to-site’ VPNs to securely scale • Build distributed applications hosted in a hybrid • Browse the catalog from within Windows Azure
web applications with Web Role work seamlessly to migrate SharePoint, SQL Server or • Use existing relational database design and program- • Use blobs to store up to 100 terabytes per account of • Create Hadoop based clusters on-demand web/worker roles • Manage access to applications based on centralized Android) using pre-built first- and third-party your datacenter capacity using IPsec protocol environment, maintaining secure connections with management portal and purchase directly from the
• Run asynchronous, long-running or perpetual tasks Active Directory to cloud ming skills to build enterprise class applications unstructured text or binary data (video, audio and • Easily scale by changing virtual machine size or the policy for logon processes, authentication and technologies • Connect to your role instances and virtual machines on-premises infrastructure without custom code portal
• Integrate with SQL Database, Reporting Services,
independent of user interaction with Worker Role • Persistently store OS and application data • Replicate multiple redundant copies of your data to images) PowerPivot, Excel, and Windows Azure Storage number of running instances of your roles federation services • Easily integrate with tools and processes you already by hostname • Remotely debug your applications through a direct • Easily discover the services you need to enhance and
• Build for scenarios such as complex application multiple physical servers for high availability • Use the NoSQL capabilities in tables for storing up to • Decrease latency and increase throughput • Use consistent single sign-on and digital rights use through REST APIs • Control your network topology by configuring DNS connection between your local development machine extend the application you’re building
• Remotely connect to take control of your virtual • Use Pig, Hive and other ecosystem tools and applications hosted in Windows Azure, using the
installations and supporting scale-out cloud patterns machines with full admin access • Simplify the process of migrating existing 100 terabytes per account of unstructured data • Enable existing Memcached applications through management technology when you subscribe to • Store only a single set of source files securely, and settings and IP address ranges for virtual machines • Integrate into your Windows Azure development
with VM Role • Get started with basic visualizations like bar and pie other Microsoft cloud services, such as Office 365 dynamically deliver to multiple formats without same tools you use on-premises workflow
on-premises databases to cloud with Import/Export • Use queues to build reliable, persistent messaging charts quickly Memcached protocol
between application tiers intermediate files
• Create caches larger than 100 GB
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With Web Sites, you can get started with web apps for With Mobile Services, you can use Windows Azure to Windows Azure SQL Reporting allows you to build SQL Data Sync enables creating and scheduling regular Service Bus messaging enables loosely coupled Windows Azure Active Directory Access Control Windows Azure CDN improves performance of Traffic Manager load-balances incoming traffic across
free. Then scale as you go: support many backend capabilities: reporting capabilities into Windows Azure applications. synchronizations between Windows Azure SQL communication between applications in the cloud or provides you with centralized authentication and applications by caching content at locations closest to multiple services running in the same or different
• Build in any tool (VS, text editors) or language
(ASP.NET, PHP, Python, Node.js)
• Native client libraries for mobile device platforms,
including Windows Store, Windows Phone 8 and iOS
Reports can render on the desktop and remove the
need to maintain your own reporting infrastructure:
• Create reports with tables, charts, maps, and gauges
Database and either SQL Server or other instances of
SQL Database:
• Synchronize data on a preset schedule or on demand
on-premises for improved scale and resiliency.
It provides functions for widespread communications,
large event distribution, naming, and service publishing:
authorization for applications in Windows Azure using
either consumer identity providers or on-premises
Windows Server Active Directory:
your customers so you can provide the best experience
for your application:
• Provide better performance for users far from a
datacenters. Customers configure policies which are
applied to DNS queries on their domain name(s):
• Manage traffic to ensure high performance,
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• Launch a web app from a gallery in 5 minutes or less • User authentication with identity providers including
• Deploy with TFS, GIT, FTP, or WebDeploy
• Choose SQL Database or MySQL
Facebook, Twitter, Google, and Microsoft Account
• Pushing notifications to mobile apps
• Deploy the same report layouts on both private and
public clouds
• Use Report Designer or Report Builder to build
• Manage synchronization with an intuitive web UI
instead of writing code
• Synchronize between on-premises and cloud data
• Queues guarantee first in, first out delivery of
messages
• Topics can be subscribed to, allowing receivers to
• Move complex authentication logic out of your code
• Orchestrate authentication and authorization of users
• Integrate with consumer identity providers like
content source who are using applications requiring
many Internet trips to load content
• Take advantage of distributed scale to manage traffic
availability and resiliency
• Choose from different routing methods such as
performance, failover and round-robin
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• Scale instantly in shared or reserved modes • REST-based APIs for data access and authentication select specific messages to read peaks, for example, a product launch
reports when SQL Database is your data source sets, and across geographically dispersed databases Windows Live ID, Google, Yahoo, and Facebook • Provide automatic failover capabilities when a service
• Use affordable custom domain names • Monitoring and data visualization showing usage of • The brokered messaging model enables message • Enable in Windows Azure management portal just goes down
your Mobile Service transmission even if senders and receivers are not with one click
online at the same time
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