Azure Storage Billing – How much do I owe

This is the one that answers all queries about Windows Azure storage cost…

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazurestorage/archive/2010/07/09/understanding-windows-azure-storage-billing-bandwidthtransactions-and-capacity.aspx

This deserves a special mention, the best practices…

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/appfabriccat/archive/2010/12/14/best-practices-for-maximizing-scalability-and-cost-effectiveness-of-queue-based-messaging-solutions-on-windows-azure.aspx

 

 

Windows Azure Boot Camp pics

The boot camp pics… Hyd, Mumbai and Chennai so far.

Sql Azure – Backup Strategy

A very informative post about the backup strategy for SQL Azure @ this point in time…

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/sql-azure-backup-and-restore-strategy.aspx

 

M-V-VM training – Karl

Awesome M-V-VM training from Karl Shifflett

http://karlshifflett.wordpress.com/2010/11/07/in-the-box-ndash-mvvm-training/

Windows Azure – Links

Getting Started: Visual Studio Tools

If you are starting fresh, here is the order (assuming VS 2010):

• IIS 7.0 (with ASP.NET, WCF HTTP
  Activation, Static Content, and optionally CGI).
• Microsoft Visual Studio 2010, Microsoft Visual Web
  Developer 2010 Express, Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 SP1, or Microsoft
  Visual Web Developer 2008 Express Edition with SP1.
• SQL Server 2005
  Express Edition (or above).
• Hotfix: Enable
  Windows Azure IntelliTrace on 32-Bit OS (not required for x64 OS).
• Hotfix: Native
  Debugging Improvements (not required for Visual Studio 2010).
• Hotfix:
  Improve Visual Studio Stability (not required for Windows 7).
• Hotfix: Correct WCF
  metadata when hosting behind a load balancer (.NET 3.5 Roles) (Windows 7 Hotfix).
• Hotfix: Support for FastCGI
  on the Development Fabric (not required for Windows 7, or Windows
  Server 2008 SP2 or later).
• Download
  details: Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio 1.2 (June 2010)Windows
  Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio 1.2 (June 2010)

• Windows
  Azure AppFabric SDK V1.0 – October Update
• Windows
  Azure AppFabric SDK V2.0 CTP – October Update
• Windows
  Identity Foundation

Documents (Technical)

• http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/whitepapers/#deep

Economics calculator

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/economics/default.aspx#tcoCompare-LB

Case Studies

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/evidence/

To Follow

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/feeds.aspx?id=blogs_windows

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/feeds.aspx?id=blogs_sql

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/feeds.aspx?id=blogs_dotnet

http://twitter.com/WindowsAzure

http://www.identityblog.com/

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vbertocci/

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/dd796075.aspx

Tools

Scaling:

http://www.paraleap.com/AzureWatch/Pricing

http://www.rightscale.com/index.php

Diagnostics:

Windows
Azure Diagnostics Viewer

Azure
Diagnostics Manager – Cerebrata

System
center Monitoring Pack – RC

http://blog.bareweb.eu/2011/01/implementing-azure-diagnostics-with-sdk-v1-3/

SMTP Solution

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazure/archive/2010/10/08/adoption-program-insights-sending-emails-from-windows-azure-part-1-of-2.aspx

http://www.authsmtp.com/auth-smtp/pricing.html

http://sendgrid.com/

http://blog.smarx.com/posts/emailtheinternet-com-sending-and-receiving-email-in-windows-azure

ACS

http://acs.codeplex.com/

http://www.identityblog.com/

Videos + Learning

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/appfabric/azure/videos.aspx

Azure
Training Kit

How – Do – I

BootCamp

Futures

Learn about the Cloud Services Sessions held in PDC 10.

http://player.microsoftpdc.com/

Interop

Windows Azure SDK for Java – www.windowsazure4j.org

Tomcat Solutions Accelerator – http://blogs.msdn.com/b/avkashchauhan/archive/2010/10/29/windows-azure-tomcat-solution-accelerator-full-solution-document.aspx

http://windowsazure.com/interop

http://www.interoperabilitybridges.com

Billing

• Windows Azure Billing overview: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/patrick_butler_monterde/archive/2010/02/10/windows-azure-billing-overview.aspx
• Windows Azure Offers: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/offers/
• Windows Azure Platform Offer Comparison: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/offers/popup/popup.aspx?lang=en&locale=en-US&offer=COMPARE_PUBLIC
• Windows Azure 30 days pass: http://www.windowsazurepass.com/