SQL Azure Database

Benefits
1. Automatic and unlimited scalability
2. Unassisted deployment
3. Builtin failover
4. Grow as you need and pay what you use
Building blocks of cloud computing
1. SAAS : Software as a service
2. PAAS : Platform as a service
3. IAAS : Infrastructure as a service
Major components of Windows Azure Platform
1. Windows Azure
  Annotations:
  - Platform that enables you to run your wen applications and services on a Microsoft virtualised operating system platform
2. Cloud Services
  Annotations:
  - Service that provides capabilities such as federated identities for access control and message bus for messaging based subscriber and publisher topologies
3. SQL Database
  Annotations:
  - Microsoft transactional database.
4. Business scenarios
  1. Seasonal applications
  2. Short Life span applications
  3. Split storage
  4. Small companies and ISV
Windows Azure Geo-locations
1. Performance
  1. Availability vs performance
2. Disaster Recovery
  1. Single data center vs distributed data centres
3. Legal factors
4. Affinity Groups
  Annotations:
  - Keeps all your services together and forms a dependancy on data center location
Windows Azure Storage
1. 4 storage models
  1. Table
    Annotations:
    - Name valued pair storage that enables you to store large amounts of data
  2. Blobs
    Annotations:
    - Interface to store files
  3. Queue
    Annotations:
    - Store messages
  4. SQL Database
    Annotations:
    - Stores relational data
Pricing
Design Considerations

Resource summary

	Created by wynand.coetzee77 about 10 years ago