1. W INDOWS A ZURE P LATFORM Reference: Cloud Computing with Windows Azure Platform by Roger Jennings

2. P RIMARY U SES OF A ZURE Build, modify and distribute applications to the Web with minimal on-premise resources Perform services such as large-volume storage, batch processing, intense or high volume computations, off-premises Reduce cost and risks of building and extending on-premise resources Reduce the effort and cost of IT managment

3. C LOUD M ODELS GAE vs Azure vs EC2 Other cloud data centers Rackspace and GoGrid

4. T HE W INDOWS A ZURE D EVELOPER P ORTAL Where is entry point into this technology? Microsoft Windows Visual Studio.net ASP.NET Windows Live ID Azure SDK and tools Special feature Development fabric Development and production environments Windows Azure hosted services Storage accounts, storage services SQL Azure Fabric Service bus Tables and blobs Web and worker roles Access control services, workflow services

5. Development Env. /Runtime Azure Production Runtime Azure Development Fabric Development storage Table services Blob services Queue services OS; Vista; ASP.NET Azure cloud fabric Azure Storage Services Windows Azure OS W INDOWS A ZURE P LATFORM A ND SD K Application Web cloud service Worker cloud service Workflow service Cloud services;.net services; service bus; SQL services

6. READING MATERIAL David Chappell’s workDavid Chappell’s work.