2.  Services Based Hosting – NOT Platform-As-A-Service  Services are accessed via Web standard protocols (HTTP/S, Rest, Atom, etc.)  Compute Hosting  Load Balanced.NET Web Applications or.NET Web Services (WCF)  Agent provides programmatic access to Fabric Services  Applications built in Visual Studio 2008 and published using application manifest XML which can include instance, scaling, and performance directives  Storage Hosting  Data storage specification by data type  BLOB = Files, images, binary objects  Table = Relational data accessed via LINQ  Queues = Message based storage  Fabric Controller allows for application scaling, reliability, and geographic location  Applications hosted in multiple VMs, across multiple physical servers, and across multiple data centers  Services can be upgraded in-life without a loss of service

3.  Consumption based cost model  Compute time, measured in machine hours  Bandwidth requirements (transmissions to and from the Azure data center), measured in GB  Storage, measured in GB  Transactions, measured as application requests such as Gets and Puts  Customers will have option to pay upfront for usage, post- pay, or to reserve capacity.  ISV Partners will be able to sell Azure Services as part of their own licensing and pricing model.

4.  October, 2008 - Community Technology Preview  No charge for developers during CTP  Consumption limited  Number of projects limited  ??? - Beta 1  ??? - Beta 2  H2 2009 - General Release  Based on Microsoft’s usual release cycle this will most likely mean limited availability through standard developer channels such as MSDN with formal launch in Q1 of 2010  May be tied to Visual Studio 2010 release

5.  Live Services are a set of web services within the Azure Services Platform for building applications  Platform Independent  Use Web standard protocols such as HTTP/S, Rest, Atom Pub  Provide SDKs for.NET, Java, and Ruby  Can be used from any device

6.  Exposes Service Endpoints Indirectly in the Cloud  Users can access a global hierarchical namespace that is DNS- and transport- independent  i.e. http://btpartnerservices.servicebus.windows.net/ISVChannel/AccountManagement  Services can be located through a stable, Internet-accessible URL, irrespective of location.  Offers Multiple Connection Options  One-way messaging between sender and listener supports unicast and multicast datagram distribution  Full-duplex connection-oriented sessions between sender and listener support bi-directional communication  Full-duplex, connection-oriented peer-to-peer sessions with network-boundary traversal create direct end-to-end connectivity through NAT  Supports Publish and Subscribe for Multicasting  The simple publish/subscribe model lets multiple publishers and multiple subscribers simultaneously use the service’s topic management and event distribution system

7.  Componentized Workflow Activities  Activities hosted in the cloud platform can receive and send message as well as perform XML inspection  Microsoft.NET Framework activities can be created for control flow  Visual Workflow Creation via Visual Studio  Workflow Management  Tools and APIs allow for deployment, management, and tracking of running workflow instances  Scalability managed in the Cloud  Transparent scalability of the service’s underlying components and automatic distribution of loads between hosts  Can integrate directly with other.NET Services

8.  Federated Identity and Access Control  Access Control Service can federate with third-party Secure Token services to support processing identities from existing systems or from external organizations.  Issuer trust can be set up with a simple Web interface or programmatically through APIs  The service directly supports Active Directory and other identity infrastructures  Service Bus endpoints can be secured with a Web interface or programmatically, based on Access Control Service rules  Flexible, Standards-Based Service  Multiple Credentials  Windows Live Ids  X.509 certificates  Traditional user names and passwords  Managed card and personal cards  Standard Web Protocols, WS-*/REST  Multiple "Relying Parties“  Applications that run both inside and outside organizational boundaries can rely on the service  Data and connectivity services can use the Access Control Service to validate application and user requests

9.  Built on Microsoft SQL Server 2008  Relational database queries like select, joins, Top, OrderBy  Blobs and standard data types are supported  Full text search will be supported  Future support for aggregates, distributed queries, schemas, projections, relationships and other relational database capabilities  Accessed via Web Standards (HTTP/REST)  Example: https://.data.database.windows.net/v1/ ?q='from e in entities where e.Kind=="MyKind" select e'  New Data Model  Authority  Directly relates to a single physical data center  Can be geographically locked  Holds a collection of containers  Container  Can hold any objects (Entities), not just tables/rows  Largest possible scope for search and update  Entity  A single object that represents a set of user-defined properties  All operations work on the Entity as a whole, no direct property level change  Currently in Technology Preview  No defined business model  No defined licensing or pricing

10. Manage person, device, and application identities with associated services such as Delegated Authentication Identity Services Manage the association and relationships between identities, data, devices, and applications Directory Services Manage the persistence and retention of user-centric information such as contacts, files, and extensible data types Storage Services Provide transport infrastructure for transient and persistent state management between applications and devices Communications and Presence Services Provide a set of technologies for building and enhancing search on web sites and applications Search Services Provide geocoding/reverse geocoding features, routing, search, road and aerial image mapping data for visualizing geospatial data. Geospatial Services

11.  Interoperable Services  Web Standards Based (HTTP/REST)  Device and programming language independent  Core framework that many of the Live applications are built upon  Windows Live Messenger  Windows Spaces  Most services available for use now  Licensing for each service varies but the average is up to 1 million users does not require licensing

12.  Provides synchronization services across any device  Storage (online and offline)  Membership  Synchronization  P2P Comms  Newsfeed  Platform independent  Uses Web Standards (HTTP/REST/Atom/RSS)

13.  Custom client for accessing Mesh Services  File synchronization  Remote Access  Windows and Non-Windows clients  Windows XP/Vista  Mac OSX  Windows Mobile  Base for other Mesh enabled applications