While Azure provides native load balancing capabilities, our KEMP Virtual LoadMaster (VLM) significantly improves on these via advance features like application delivery and load balancing in Layer 7 of the network stack. Other features that KEMP VLM delivers for Azure based and hybrid infrastructure deployments are: - Client authentication and single sign-on (SSO) High Performance Layer 4 & Layer 7 Application Load Balancing - Intelligent Global Site Traffic Distribution - Application Health Checking - IP and Layer 7 Persistence - Content Switching - SSL Acceleration and Offload - Compression - Caching - Advanced App Gateway Services - Provide better Load Balancing over the Internal Load Balancer - Sophisticated Traffic Manager https://kemptechnologies.com/solutions/microsoft-load-balancing/loadmaster-azure/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/marketplace/partners/kemptech/vlm-azure/

27. Resources
Estimator Tool
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=43376
Azure Services Overview
http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/
Calculator
http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/calculator/
Guidelines
http://wikiazure.com