Enable storage analytics so during development the program can be further optimzed for the cloud

Add support for TimeZoneInfo class or .Net 4 to Azure Reporting so reports can adjust time zones for dates/times correctly for end users.

Currently there is only windows server images.

Performance can be highly influenced by other tenants making SQL Azure pretty unpredictable performance wise. Make it at least possible as a paid option.

Now we just can create a VM with a 30G hard drive for drive C. But for some specific scenarios，the free space of drive C will reduce to zero very quickly. So we need to customize our drive C in order to deploy our own applications

I'd love to show my customers that we are currently in the process of offering them a set of great new features while my new cloud service is being deployed or is in the swapping period, rather then showing them a generic error they can't understand anything from.
What do you think?

Support exposing data through stored procedures on Azure

In shared or reserved mode we need:
- Caching!!
- Advanced Diagnostics
- Ability to run Startup scripts (and PowerShell to configure sites, for example to never go idle, which is a must have)

Currently, There is no way to stop reporting service in order to reduce the bill. Can we implement that feature?

From Visual Studio I would like a well integrated remote debugging experience with Windows Azure Cloud Services. This is a good start, but it would be extremely useful to have this integrated in to Visual Studio 2012.

http://www.fullscale180.com/Blog/post/2012/10/07/Remote-Debugging-Windows-Azure-Cloud-Services-with-Visual-Studio-2012.aspx

How can I protect my infrastructure if it only takes a username and password to login? Please I need two factor authenication. I use Google Authenticator for Amazon AWS, DropBox, Google Apps and I love to use it for Windows Azure portal

This will prevent a lot of duplicate configuration values in the configuration file.
Database connection strings, storage connection strings, queue names etc are likely to be used by more roles in a project.

Currently the C: drive / root volume size is fixed as 30 GB which also includes the Operating System. Of course there are complex and pain ways to resize the root volume size upto 120 GB, but that is really really hard.

If there is a step in the VM launch wizard which will ask for the root Volume size of say 30 GB min and 120 GB min (if not more) and then create the VM. It will be really amazing.

SQL Azure Database does not support distributed transactions, which are transactions that multiple transaction managers (multiple resources). This means that SQL Azure doesn’t allow Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator (MS DTC) to delegate distributed transaction handling. Because of this you can’t use ADO.NET or MSDTC to commit or rollback a single transaction that spans across multiple SQL Azure databases or a combination of SQL Azure and an on-premise SQL Server.

This is a great feature in SQL Server that seems to have been hijacked for debugging or something in SQL Azure. It would be great to have this feature back. It would be better to invent some new way to provide this debugging in SQL Azure that doesn't introduce a conflict

We have several VMs which provide a service to our web roles. We use traffic manager to loadbalance between these VMs.

As the the only valid traffic to these VMs is from our webroles, our office or the TM probes, we use windows firewall on the VMs to restrict all other traffic.

The issue we have is that the traffic manager Probe IPs change on occasion.

If the list of Probe IPs was published, we could ensure that our FW rules are kept upto date ensuring that TM is doing it's supposed to be doing!

I can be logged into Google\Gmail with multiple accounts at once i.e. work and personal, and easily switch between accounts. (
http://support.google.com/accounts/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1721977 ). I should be able to do this with azure portal.

I've documented this problem in the Windows Azure forums:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/scogeneral/thread/d0431d3f-52c3-41b4-be37-7c192e28a62a

Basically you have to do a workaround to call PowerShell 3.0 from a System Center 2012 Orchestrator Runbook Run .Net Script Activity because for whatever reason the activity called PowerShell 2.0 instead which isn't supported by Windows Azure PowerShell. Calling subroutines is a royal pain.

Provide email server for Web sites. The extra cost of SendGrid (not even an email host) makes Azure unnafordable for many small shops.