First presentation I did about Microsoft Azure. Presented it for the Microsoft Student Champs meeting on 2011 November. Microsoft Azure was known as Windows Azure during that time.

1. Windows Azure
An Introduction to Cloud Computing and
Windows Azure
By : Thuru
Presented in Microsoft Student Champs Meeting – November 2011

2. What is Cloud Computing?

3. Windows
Azure
SQL Azure App Fabric
Azure Appliance
Market
Place
Windows Azure Platform
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/

4. Windows Azure
• An operating system for the cloud
• Reduce the complexity of Internet scale
applications
• Designed to be scalable & available
• A service running on Microsoft
datacenters

5. Windows Azure
Developer
SDK
Compute Storage

6. Windows Azure

7. Windows Azure – Web Role
Web Role
HTTP
HTTPS

8. Windows Azure – Worker Role
Worker
Role
Web Role QUEUE

9. Windows Azure

10. Windows Azure Storage Services
• Table Storage Service - A tabular storage for where
we can store data in the column - row based manner
• Blobs – Storage for large binary objects
• Queue – Storage for dispatching the works from web
role to worker role in a first in first out manner

11. Windows Azure VM Sizes
VM Size CPU Cores Memory
Disk Space for
Local Storage
Resources
Small 1 1.7 GB 250 GB
Medium 2 3.5 GB 500 GB
Large 4 7 GB 1000 GB
ExtraLarge 8 14 GB 2000 GB

12. Windows Azure - Pricing
 Compute
 $0.12 / hour per instance / per CPU core
 Storage
 $0.15 / GB stored / month
 Storage transactions
 $0.01 / 10K
 Data transfers
 $0.10 in / $0.15 out / GB
 ($0.30 in / $0.45 out / GB in Asia)
Taken on Nov 2011

13. Thank you