1 1 North Central USA South Central USA Northern Europe Western Europe Eastern Asia Southeast Asia 24 x Node CDN

First Mega Datacentre built outside the US, on-line on July 2009  Cost $500 million  EU Datacenter Best Practice Award Winner  Stand-alone Server Pods  Environmentally Sustainable  Free Air-Cooling via Air-Side Economization  1 % water use vs. traditional facilities

50ms 50ms 100ms *Performance – traffic sent to closest service in terms of network latency *Round Robin – traffic distributed equally across all services *Failover – traffic sent to primary service, if offline, to next service in a list Traffic Manager Monitoring Policies* foo-us.cloudapp.net foo-europe.cloudapp.net foo-asia.cloudapp.net

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3 3 Question: How do you sell 150,000 Tickets in 10 Seconds? Answer: 750 Compute Instances and 550 databases

BING REALTIME FACEBOOK/TWITTER SEARCH INGESTION ENGINE Windows Azure Blobs Windows Azure Tables VMVM VMVM VMVM VMVM

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TIME IT CAPACITY Actual Load Allocated IT-capacities Too Much Power Not Enough Power Load Forecast

Actual Load Capacity on Demand Lower Capex No capital laying idle No screaming customers Resources go up... And... down TIME IT CAPACITY Load Forecast

ComputePrice Extra small instance$0.05 per hour Small instance (default)$0.12 per hour Medium instance$0.24 per hour Large instance$0.48 per hour Extra Large instance$0.96 per hour SQL Azure $99.99 per database up to 10GB per month $ per database up to 20GB per month $ per database up to 30GB per month $ per database up to 40GB per month $ per database up to 50GB per month Windows Azure storage $0.15 per GB stored per month based on the daily average $0.01 per 10,000 storage transactions Data transfers North America and Europe regions: $0.15 per GB out Asia Pacific Region: $0.20 per GB out

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