Windows Azure Platform

Windows Azure Platform(PDC Update)

Wade WegnerArchitect, Microsoft Corporation

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The Windows Azure Platform

• Windows Azure• SQL Azure• Windows Azure platform AppFabric

• Developer tools• Microsoft Codename “Dallas”

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Overview

• Flexible application hosting• Lights-out service management– Provide code & service model, hit ENTER

• Storage at massive scale

Compute StorageManagement

• Relational database as a service– Highly available, automatically maintained

• Extension of the SQL Server Data Platform

Database

Business AnalyticsReporting Data Sync

• Secure connections between services– Across organizational boundaries

• Claims-based access control

ServiceBus

AccessControl

>>FUTURE

• Content brokerage and discovery platform • Available as a CTP at commercial launch

Microsoft Codename “Dallas”Information Services

Design Principles

• Rock solid fundamentals– Platform for business-critical applications

• Lower TCO– Uses cloud characteristics to lower TCO

• Better together– Comprehensive platform for complete solutions

• Inter-operability– Enables interaction with other environments

Rock Solid Fundamentals

• Security• Performance and reliability• High availability

• Scale out• Multi-tenancy

Lower TCO

• Higher level of abstraction– Manage services, not servers– Manage data, not databases– Reduces cost of development & operations

• Access to shared resources– Various levels of multi-tenancy– Reduces cost of entry & operations

• Familiar programming models– Reduces cost of development & maintenance

Better Together

• One stop shop for required functionality• Location affinity– Co-located services in locations across the globe

• One project– Manage software components across the platform

• One bill– Consistent usage-based billing models– View and manage one bill across the platform

• Shared functionality– Microsoft Pinpoint, Microsoft Codename “Dallas”, …

Demo: One Project

Demo: One Project

Demo: One Project

Demo: One Bill

Inter-Operability

• Componentized platform– Use any subset of the services to build apps– Build your own tools using service APIs

• Language agnostic application hosting– Use any framework supported by Windows

• Language agnostic services– Program against services using open web APIs

• Connected platform– Integrate with on-premises apps, identity, etc.

Lap Around

Application Hosting

• Flexible service architectures

• Support for standard languages (Full Trust)• Service healing

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Service Management

• Service management as a service– Enables lights-out service management

• Powerful service upgrade models– Including in-place rolling upgrade

Storage

• Blobs, Tables, Queues• (New) Drives– Use standard file system APIs

• Designed for the cloud– For easy access, from anywhere– For durability– For massive scale

>>FUTURE

Coming Soon

• Programming model– Administrator privileges in the VM– Deployment of pre-configured VM images• Still obtain the benefits of the WA service model

• Storage– User-selectable geo-locations for replicas– Secondary indices on tables

• Service management– Remote terminal server access to VMs

Database

Business AnalyticsReporting Data Sync

Database

• Relational database, provided as a service– Highly symmetrical development and tooling

experience (use TDS protocol and T-SQL)– Highly scaled out, on commodity hardware– Built on the SQL Server technology foundation

• Beyond “hosted database”– High availability, DB provisioning, and DB

management are provided by the service– Pay for what you use

>>FUTURE

Data Sync

• Tools for data synchronization with SQL Azure– Connect on-premises apps with the cloud– Create cached-mode clients

• Built on Microsoft Sync Framework and ADO.NET Sync Services

Sync Sync / Cache

ServiceBus

AccessControl

Service Bus

• Securely connect applications– Over the internet– Across any network topology– Across organizational boundaries

• Primary application patterns– Eventing:

• Notify applications and/or devices

– Service Remoting: • Securely project on-premises services out to the cloud

– Tunneling: • App-to-app communication with NAT/Firewall traversal

Access Control

• Provides outsourcing of claims-based access control for REST web services

• Key capabilities:– Usable from any platform– Low friction way to onboard new clients– Integrates with AD FS v2– Supports WRAP / SWT– Enables simple delegation

• Used today by Service Bus and “Dallas”

>>FUTURE

Microsoft Codename “Dallas”Information Services

>>FUTURE

Introducing “Dallas”

• Content Brokerage and Discovery platform – Discover, Explore, and Use any type of content

(blobs, structured, real-time web services)– Tap into an ecosystem of global content providers– Process & analyze data

• Empowers developers of all sizes• Built on Windows Azure and SQL Azure

Commercial Launch

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Business Considerations • Billing– Consumption-based and subscription offers

• SLA• Support– 24/7 phone support; developer forums

• Microsoft Pinpoint Marketplace– List & discover applications and services

• Global availability– Datacenter options in USA, Europe, and Asia

Business Model

• Consumption-based billing model– Compute: Rent a VM by the hour– Database: Rent a DB by the month– Storage: Pay per transaction & data stored– All: Pay per data transfer

• Various subscription offers are available

Global Availability

• Platform availability– 21 countries, 10 currencies, 5 languages– 41 countries and 13 currencies in Mar 2010

• Datacenter locations– North Central US– South Central US– North Europe– Southeast Asia

Summary

• The Windows Azure Platform consists of – Windows Azure– SQL Azure– Windows Azure platform AppFabric

• The Windows Azure Platform is designed to– Host business-critical applications– Lower the total cost of ownership– Provide comprehensive functionality– Support inter-operability

Call To Action

• Go to http://windowsazure.com– Redeem your CTP tokens– Free usage, with quotas, thru Feb 1

• Visit the Windows Azure Platform lounge– Try out the Hands on Labs– Meet members of the team

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