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Azure Availability Zones is a high-availability offering that protects your applications and data from datacenter failures. Availability Zones are unique physical locations within an Azure…
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Microsoft announced today that the Caching service has been released as a production service.
The Caching service is a distributed, in-memory, application cache service that accelerates the performance of Windows Azure and SQL Azure applications by allowing you to keep data in-memory and saving you the need to retrieve that data from storage or database.
There are going to be 6 different cache size options for you to choose from, varying from 128MB to 4GB.
The prices of the different cache sizes are the following:
· 128 MB cache for $45.00/month
· 256 MB cache for $55.00/month
· 512 MB cache for $75.00/month
· 1 GB cache for $110.00month
· 2 GB cache for $180.00/month
· 4 GB cache for $325.00/month
In order for you to be able to start using the service and evaluate your needs though, there is a promotional period in which you will not be charged for the service for billing periods prior to August 1, 2011.
The service is billed on a monthly basis, based on the cache size you sign up for. You can also sign up for more than one cache and use these multiple caches in order to get a total cache size that is different or bigger than the standard cache sizes we provide.
To learn more about the Caching service please use the following resources:
· Windows Azure AppFabric Caching availability announced!! blog post
· Video: Introduction to the Windows Azure AppFabric Cache
· Video: Windows Azure AppFabric Caching – How to Set-up and Deploy a Simple Cache
· Windows Azure AppFabric FAQ on MSDN
· MSDN Documentation
You can access the service at: http://appfabric.azure.com.
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Yesterday I presented a 200 level session on Windows Azure over Live Meeting. This was the first of a three part series of Live Meetings regarding Microsoft’s Windows Azure Platform.
The session covered all of the fundamentals of Cloud Computing, the different types of cloud computing services (IAAS, PAAS, SAAS), and then went on discussing the Windows Azure Platform taking a deeper look into the Windows Azure OS (Computation, Storage, Management) namely Windows Azure.
For those of you that missed it there will be a recording available soon at www.techdays.gr. till then you can download the slide deck I used from my SkyDrive folder.
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Register now here in order to catch for the second one next week.
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Last week I had the chance to talk about strating up with SQL Azure on a Microsoft’s Developers Day event. The things I’ve talked about included: How to create your database on the cloud, querying data, migrating Databases to SQL Azure. Tips and Tricks: SQL Azure firewall through API, Managing connections, Logging sessionId's, Throttling and latency, Transactions, Supportability. Overall
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Watching Vittorio Bertocci 's Windows Identity Foundation (WIF) introductory talk at PDC as well as the recording of the excellent talk Microsoft Architect Hervey Wilson gave on this subject at PDC09 brought back wonderful memories of long discussions (and arguments ;-)) I had with Stelios, Manolis, Dimos and Stavros back when I was working at DOL, on Federated identity and Microsoft’s
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Are you intrigued with Cloud computing, are you considering Microsoft’s Windows Azure but don’t know whether this is going to actually save you money? Then visit Windows Azure ROI / TCO calculator and find out. After you agree to the terms, you’ll then have to fill in a one page questionnaire. The most important question is about the expected ‘growth profile’ of your application, i.e.
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Last week at Microsoft DevDays “Make Web not War” we had a rather passionate conversation on the features Microsoft’s cloud relational database engine (SQL Azure) offers today and how these are going to change the way we program today. In that direction I’m linking the page that Microsoft has put up in order to listen everyone's wishes on what features are the most important ones. So
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If you’ve started playing around Microsoft Azure then you are probably going to appreciate this post ;-). I know I did. Kudos to Ryan Dunn On Tuesday an azure table Browser service was launched for developers at MyAzureStorage.com . The service was build using ASP.NET MVC on a rich AJAX interface. and its goals are to provide developers an easy way to create, query, and manage their
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If you have already started playing around SQL Azure you will have probably stumbled on the limitation the SQL Management studio has. So I think you’ll find SQL Azure Explorer rather useful till Microsoft synchronizes its toolset with the Azure platform. SQL Azure Explorer is an addin for Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 that will enable you to manage you SQL Azure Tables just live the Visual
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Ok you’ve developed your cloud application and you’re ready to publish it to Azure, wait a minute how are you going to upload your database to SQL Azure? Of course you just can’t do a backup – restore to the cloud so what are your options? Well actually there are two ways you could deploy a database to SQL Azure. With the first one you manually create your db schema installation script
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A few weeks back Microsoft announced the first CTP of SQL Azure, its new cloud relational persistence offering. In this post I will show you how you can connect and query your SQL Azure DBs from your PC. There are two ways you can interact with SQL Azure, one is through the SQLCMD command line program and the other is through SQL Server Management studio. To connect to SQL Azure using
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