Windows Azure - Seminar notes

Azure training-kit  - The Azure Training Kit includes a comprehensive set of technical content designed to help you learn how to use Azure.
https://github.com/Azure-Readiness - good place for starting labs

Azure Services:

• Web Sites - your own web site on Azure could be on IIS,Tomcat,Jetty
• Virtual machine -  there are predefind VM you can use such as  linux , windows server , web logic, windows with VisualStudio , Oracle DB  
• Mobile services - for mobile developers 
• SQL databases
• Cloud services  
• Media services 
• Storage 
• Visual studio Online 
• Traffic Manager - like load balancer 
• Network  - managed private network  (VPN)
• Adding Add On - such as mongodb , MS translator .. and many others add on.

• On Azure the data replicate(saved the image) into 3 "section" , one of them into different data center - you can control this.

• On Azure you can use any language (java, ruby ..) to develop , you can use open source .
• In Azure - you can access to your private network - e.g. access your db in your domain.
• Azure Web sites - are powerful feature in azure , very easy and smart  and strong.
• you can set your datacenter - e.g for Israel user - its better to choose North Europe Data Center.

Azure Web Site

• if your web site need to host images and video its better to use Azure storage , for storage you can have direct access to resource, you can put CDN on top storage resource.
• in the application configuration you can configure it to support websockets , application logging (system.diagnostics.trace) , and many diagnostic feature even debug remotely.
• there are free , shared , and dedicated server (basic / standard).
•  there are power shell command to connect to azure from command line - its a multi platform env , you can run commands from MAC for example.
• for each web site you can access via ftp via user/password.
• you can deploy your site via ftp, you can deploy from source control -  (continues integration), even directly from VisualStudio.
• you can edit your web site files via VS online.

Azure Cloud Service 

• its a container of related Web role and Worker role

C++ on the cloud - The C++ REST SDK (codename "Casablanca") is a Microsoft project for cloud-based client-server communication in native code using a modern asynchronous C++ API design.