Session Presented @IndicThreads Cloud Computing Conference, Pune, India ( http://u10.indicthreads.com ) ------------ Windows Azure is a cloud services operating system that serves as the development, service hosting and service management environment for the Windows Azure platform. Windows Azure provides developers with on-demand compute and storage to host, scale, and manage web applications on the internet through Microsoft datacenters. This session introduces the concepts of Windows Azure platform including compute and storage. You will learn how to design, develop, debug and deploy your first Cloud application using Visual Studio and Azure Tools.

4. Windows Azure is an internet-scale cloud services platform hosted in Microsoft data
centers around the world, proving a simple, reliable and powerful platform for the creation
of web applications and services.

5. Application
Compute Storage
Fabric
Virtual Machine Images
VM VM VM VM VM VM
Windows Server 2008 64 Bit

6. IIS 7 No UI
Web App Long-Running • Full Trust
Processes
Web Svc • Stateless
• HTTP(S)
• TCP
Compute
.NET 3.5 / 4.0

7. REST Interfaces
Blob Tables
Storage

8. Demo

10. http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure
http://msdn.microsoft.com/azure
http://www.janakiramm.net
Janakiram.msv@microsoft.com