Jim ONeil Microsoft Developer Evangelist
Software + Services
Platform-as-a-Service Software-as-a-service Infrastructure-as-a-Service
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=Fabric Agent Fabric Agent VM Load balancing Checkpoint and recovery Service management Windows Server 2008 – x64 1 x 1.6Ghz 1.75 GB memory 250 GB storage Windows Server 2008 – x64 2 x 1.6Ghz 3.5 GB memory 500 GB storage Windows Server 2008 – x64 4 x 1.6Ghz 7 GB memory 1000 GB storage Windows Server 2008 – x64 8 x 1.6Ghz 14 GB memory 2000 GB storage
* Web Role * Hosted in IIS (Web Server) * Public facing service * Worker Role * Background process * Can be public facing * Language agnostic Web Role Worker Role Web Role (IIS) Worker Role HTTP/HTTPS
* Blobs – file/container storage * Tables - non-schematized data * Queues – inter-role communication * Drives – durable storage (in beta) HTTP/HTTPS Blobs Tables Drives Queues
* Developer portal * Management API * REST * X.509 mutual authentication
* Service Bus Communication across organizational and network boundaries * Access Control Service Federated, claims-based identity
* SQL Server in the cloud * Core relational database capabilities * REST, native, and ODBC accessibility * Data Sync between cloud and on-premise databases * Automatic replication and failover 1GB 10GB Web Edition Business Edition
* SQL Azure Portal * SQL Server Management Studio * SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) * bcp * Your favorite tool that used TDS to communicate to SQL Server
* Standards participation * Cloud Security Alliance corporate member ( * Open Cloud Standards Incubator (DMTF) Leadership Board ( * Simple Cloud co-founder ( * Data Center Compliance * SAS 70 Type I and Type II attestations * ISO/IEC 27001:2005
SQL Azure Per month Web Edition (1GB) = $9.99 Business Edition (10GB) = $99.99 Compute Per Service Hour Small: $0.12 Medium: $0.24 Large: $0.48 X-Large: $0.96 Storage Per GB stored and transactions Storage = $0.15 / GB Transaction = $0.10 / 100K Bandwidth Per GB transfer in/out of a datacenter US/EU=$0.10 in / $0.15 out Asia Pacific=$0.30 in / $0.45 out AppFabric Per Message Operation $0.015 per 10K messages
Instance health SQL Azure availability AppFabric availability Compute connectivity Storage availability
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