A Brief of Windows Azure Compute Service !!

Hello Folks ,
My this post will give you a very brief overview of Windows azure and its working so here is the post !!!

The Windows Azure Compute service can run many different kinds of applications. A primary goal of this platform, however, is to support applications that have a very large number of simultaneous users. (Infact, Microsoft has said that it will build its own SaaS applications on Windows Azure, which sets the bar high.) Reaching this goal by scaling up—running on bigger and bigger machines—isn’t possible. Instead,
Windows Azure is designed to support applications that scale out, running multiple copies of the same code across many commodity servers.

To allow this, a Windows Azure application can have multiple instances, each executing in its own virtual machine (VM). These VMs run 64-bit Windows Server 2008 i.e Windows Server 2008 R2, and they’re provided by a hypervisor (based on Hyper-V) that’s been modified for use in Microsoft’s cloud. To run an application, a developer accesses the Windows Azure portal through the Web browser, signing in with a Windows Live ID. He/She then chooses
whether to create a hosting account for running applications, a storage account for storing data, or both.Once the developer has a hosting account, He/she can upload her application, specifying how many instances the application needs. Windows Azure then creates the necessary VMs and runs the application.
It’s important to note that a developer can’t supply there own VM image for Windows Azure to run. Instead,the platform itself provides and maintains its own copy of Windows. Developers focus solely on creating applications that run on Windows Azure.

In the initial incarnation of Windows Azure, known as the Community Technology Preview (CTP), two different instance types are available for developers to use: Web role instances and Worker role instances.For getting useful information on Web and worker role please look at my last post.

That's all now for this post hope you are enjoying my post .For any queries kindly contact me.

Jayesh Maduskar
Jayesh.Maduskar@msptechrep.com
Microsoft Student Partner