Benefits of using Windows Azure:
In simple words, Azure benefits the developers, Independent Software Vendors, Business Partners and any Third parties with their solutions.
Infrastructure Management made Simple: Since services platform manages many critical OS updates and management tasks, more focus can be put for the needs of the users. Also, eliminating the expensive hardware planning and management.
For the Developers: Millions of .Net developers, can utilize their skills to create cloud-based applications that are scalable across on-premises and online. In future, applications written on Ruby on Rails (RoR),Python, Php can also be deployed.
Standards Compatibility: Since Azure platform supports all industry standard protocols like HTTP, SOAP, REST etc., applications can be easily integrated though built on different technologies.
Enhanced User Experiences: With Windows Azure a variety of applications can be developed for web, mobile and hybrid domain. These applications can also easily get integrated with existing or third-party applications.
Faster: Since the Azure platform is offering lot of services up-front, applications will be created and deployed faster than custom way.
- Ability to run Microsoft ASP.NET Web applications or .NET code in the cloud
- Service hosting environment that includes Internet Information Services 7.0 and Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 SP1
- Security supported by flexible Code Access Security policies
- Small runtime API that supports logging and local scratch storage
- Web portal that helps you deploy, scale, and upgrade your services quickly and easily
- FastCGI, a protocol for interfacing applications to web servers, which will allow customers to deploy and run web applications written with non-Microsoft programming languages such as PHP (Developers will be responsible for including the relevant runtime libraries for these languages when deploying applications.)
- .NET Full Trust to allow usage of additional .NET features such as Windows Communication Foundation (WCF).
- From Full Trust .NET, developers can call into unmanaged DLLs
- Blobs, tables, and queues hosted in the cloud, close to your computation
- Authenticated access and triple replication to help keep your data safe
- Easy access to data with simple REST interfaces, available remotely and from the data center
Development Tools
- Complete offline development environment, including computation and storage services
- Complete command-line SDK tools and samples
- Visual Studio add-in that enables local debugging
source: microsoft.com
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