1. Introduction to Microsoft Azure
2. Microsoft Vision for Microsoft Azure
3. Evolution of Microsoft Azure
4. Understanding Cloud Service Model
5. Microsoft Azure Components
6. Microsoft Azure Services
7. Advantages
8. Microsoft Azure Pricing
9. Conclusion
10. References
Microsoft Azure is previously known as Windows Azure before 25th March 2014.
It is an open & flexible cloud platform that enables us to quickly deploy & manage applications across a global network of microsoft-managed datacenters.
It provides Platform as a Service(PaaS ) in which we can build applications using any language,tools or framework .
It helps in integrating our public cloud applications with our existing IT environment.
LICENSE Closed source for platform.
Open source for client’s SDK.
2010
Finally, Microsoft Azure was released on 1st February, 2010 in 21 countries.
2014
In April 2014, Microsoft Azure witnessed many changes.
Windows Azure renamed to Microsoft Azure.
New Beta portal is released.
It provides cross-platform technologies to speed up delievery process.
Azure Machine learning public preview.
Fully managed : No need to buy hardware or software.
Integrated : Drag , drop ,Connect.
Deploy in minutes : operational with a click.
The kinds of services that cloud computing platform such as Microsoft Azure can provide is :
Platform as a Service (PaaS) :
Cloud application infrastructure.
On–demand application hosting environment.
Customer develops & deploys applications for specific application architecture.
Hoster provides applications runtime ,storage & integration needed to run customer’s application.
Eg : Google App Engine , Microsoft Azure.
Microsoft Azure PaaS
Applications Microsoft Azure Service Model
Runtimes .NET 3.5/4, ASP .NET, PHP
Operating System Microsoft Server 2008/R2-Compatible OS
Virtualization Microsoft Azure Hypervisor
Server Microsoft Blades
Database SQL Azure
Storage Microsoft Azure Storage (Blob, Table)
Networking Microsoft Azure-Configured Networking
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Microsoft Azure Network services provides foundation for building cloud solutions.
It also helps in securely connecting our cloud infrastructure to our on-premises datacenter.
Two main players for network services :
a. Virtual Network
b. Traffic Manager
Virtual Network
Virtual Network plays a key role when we want to extend our on-premises infrastructure into the cloud .
There is no need to create virtual network if the services we are using is in the same cloud service.
By using virtual networks, we can enable virtual machines running in different cloud services to talk to each other.
Per-use Pricing
Ability to integrate with on-premise infrastructure
Scalabilty
Availabilty
Recoverabilty
Eased Management
Microsoft Azure allows us to quickly deploy infrastructures and services to meet all of our needs. We can run Windows and Linux based applications in `19 Azure datacenter region, delivered with enterprise grade SLAs.
No upfront costs.
No termination fees.
Per minute billing.
Pay for what you use.
Instances Cores RAM Storage Prices
B1 1 1.5 GB 10 GB ₹4.51/hr
(~₹3,365/m
o)
B2 2 3.5 GB 10 GB ₹9.02/hr(~₹6,730/mo)
B3 4 7 GB 10 GB ₹18.03/hr
(~₹13,400/
mo)
Microsoft Azure is basically practical implementation of cloud computing considering Platform as a Service (PaaS).
It started a new trend of charging as per client’s usage.
By the end of 2014, Microsoft Azure data centers will be operational in 19 regions around the world atleastdouble the number of any other public cloud provider.
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you !