Windows Azure Feature Voting
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allow a different dns name from the service name (like in the old Portal)
For different situations, at times, you may want a different DNS name for your service than the service name. In the old Portal you could do this. The new one automatically makes them the same. Requests this feature be added back.
1 vote -
add memory metrics to the resevered instance websites
When running a reserved instance of Azure websites I would like to see the metrics for memory usage.
This would allow me to see if I need to increase my instance size due to low memory before I start getting warnings.6 votes -
Don't charge per hour for reporting services. Allow scheduling of reports for reporting services.
SRS allows scheduling of reports to run every hour or such and a history of the report runs are available, allow this in the Azure reporting services as well. Also charge for CPU usage not hour, having a Reporting service should be an incredibly small footprint.
2 votes -
Make sure that when the invoice notice goes out, that the invoice is actually ready and available in the portal.
Every month I get an email telling me my invoice for Azure usage is ready, but it usually takes weeks before it actually is. According to support this is because my end of period date is out of sync with my "anniversary date". This is very annoying and tune consuming, having to check back every so often.
3 votes -
Make it easy to keep database connection details out of source code
I want to avoid putting my production username/password for the Azure DB in source control where all other developers can see it and thereby have read/write access. This is not easy today. Couldn't it work similar to the way Azure credentials are transmitted during a deploy? Or maybe we could store this data in Azure tied to the account, and copied into new instances as they are spun up?
3 votes -
Add an option for "personal consumers" that allows you to limit the potential charges to your bank account.
At this time, Azure sells several services to host blogs and other CMS systems. As a personal consumer of these services, my only option is "Pay-As-You-Go", which does not allow any limit on spending. Imagine what might happen if a personal consumer's blog is hit with a DOS attack? It would be pretty easy to ruin someone's bank account with no limit to the charges. Perhaps a business would not consider this a problem, but as a personal consumer, this is an incredibly scary line of thinking!
1 vote -
Delete role from deployment
There is function in Service Management API that is called DeleteRole but that is not what this function do. Function requests deletion of entire deployment. New functionality could be that just role (virtual machine) could be deleted.
1 vote -
Warm up IIS applications in WebRole
By default the web application in a web role is not loaded until the first request is issued against the role. In large applications the loading time for the first page can be quite long which gives a very bad experience for users and search engines.
IIS provides some features to avoid this, but it complicated to use them in Azure:
http://fabriccontroller.net/blog/posts/iis-8-0-application-initialization-module-in-a-windows-azure-web-role/
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9580218/automatic-start-of-azure-webrole-after-deployI'd like to suggest the following:
Azure should support application warm up out of the box - when a role is restarted due to redeployment or maintainance, the warm up should be done automatically. The admin might…3 votes -
Storage analytics for development storage
Enable storage analytics so during development the program can be further optimzed for the cloud
3 votes -
Ensure Azure controls always respond with either 1) an action or 2) an error -- rather than with nothing
Some Azure controls become unresponsive -- they do not perform an expected action, nor do they inform the user what is happening. As a result, the user either has to either go to a lot online searching to figure out what to do; give up; or file a tech support ticket.
The most recent example I encountered is pressing the "Delete" control (bottom of the window) for a cloud service. If the cloud service has something deployed to either production or staging, the "Delete" control is unresponsive -- nothing happens. It is impossible for the user to tell whether or…
4 votes -
Timezoneinfo
Add support for TimeZoneInfo class or .Net 4 to Azure Reporting so reports can adjust time zones for dates/times correctly for end users.
3 votes -
Provide windows7 virtual machine image
Currently there is only windows server images.
3 votes -
cluster index management
Allow possibility to drop existing cluster index on table to create another one.
At this time :
Impossible to create new one because it already have a cluster index on table.Impossible to drop existing one because, Tables without a clustered index are not supported in SQL Azure
27 votes -
Support Multicast within Virtual Networks
Allow Multicast operations within the virtual networks for IaaS
4 votes -
customized the size of drive C:(System Drive)
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
3 votes -
Create some sort of intermediary web page while the service is transitioning
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?1 vote -
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Support exposing data through stored procedures on Azure
1 vote -
Allow for secondary indexes on Table Storage
Restricting us to only the row key is very limiting. We currently have to maintain our own secondary indexes for other columns and this is very cumbersome, it should be a feature of the platform.
5 votes -
Make the Root volume of the Azure Virtual Machine Size Configurable
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.
3 votes -
Allow use of CONTEXT_INFO in SQL Azure
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
1 vote
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