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Hosted Compute Blob Storage Blob Storage Hosted Compute

X X Non-public blob (e.g. paid or ad- funded content) Non-public blob (e.g. paid or ad- funded content) 1. “I am Bob & I want X” 2. Service prepares a Shared Access Signature (SAS) to X using the securely stored storage account key 3. Service returns SAS (signed HTTPS URL) 4. Bob uses SAS to access X directly from Blob Storage for reduced latency & compute load

X X Public container CDN X X Blob header determines time-to-live at the edge Closest Point of Presence DNS name resolves to closest POP

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Hosted Compute Table Storage SQL Azure Table Storage SQL Azure

Unified Cache View Multiple role instances may be cache clients Clients access the cache as if it was a single large namespace Cache layer distributes data across the various cache instances

On-Premises App Windows Azure App AppFabric Cache APIs Windows Server AppFabric Cache AppFabric Cache APIs Windows Azure AppFabric Caching

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// Use cache configuration from app config DataCacheFactory CacheFactory = new DataCacheFactory(); // Get cache client for cache DataCache myCache = CacheFactory.GetDefaultCache(); // Add an object to the cache. myCache.Put(“myKey", myObject); retrievedObject = myCache.Get("myKey"); if (retrievedObject == null) { // Cache miss }

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Asynchronous Hosted Compute Synchronous Hosted Compute Private Public CDN Public Table Storage SQL Azure Table Storage SQL Azure Tuning