Too often changes are being implemented onto the production Azure platform without the ability for devs to test / validate that the changes won't affect their production apps. Need to know what is in the pipeline, when it will be applied, and what to look for to evaluate the impact. Right now, we don't know something will affect us until our production site goes down.

Azure persistence options don't cover use cases which require a document db or graph db. Azure Drive isn't adequate to port no sql dbs like MongoDB or Neo4J to Azure to handle these use cases, since only 1 role instance can write to the drive.

The insanely long path-name used for the deployment folder in the Dev Fabric often results in apps not working. PLEASE fix it so the path-name is shorter, or let use specify a base folder (e.g. C:\Temp) for the Dev Fabric to use.

Customeres are screaming for SharePoint 2010.
Show examples of how both intranet (with security) and internet solutions can be created with Azure.

The visual studio profiler is very useful to determine cpu cost, memory cost but it would be extremely useful to be able to determine code cost in different currencies, this would allow developers to optimize code for cost.

Unify MapReduce efforts ( LINQ to HPC (Dryad), Project Daytona, Excel DataScope, HortonWorks Hadoop Partnership & PowerView, etc. ) and expose through a single async API that works against data in table storage and blob storage (and trinity graph storage) that is affordable and scalable enough to use for near real-time results over data that is constantly appended to.

Build an API that exposes the data that is used by the Service Availability dashboard, so that we can build monitoring applications (e.g. WinPhone7) to keep an eye on things. I know about the RSS feed for the services, but it's largely ad-hoc, and pretty unparseable programmatically. Ideally, this is something that just returns Red/Yellow/Green for a DC+Service combination, and a comment if it's not all Green. Clearly, if everything is going well, it's heavily cacheable, and only when it's changed would you need to break that cache.

Provide the ability to download the active deployed cspkg file again.

We have users with BPOS accounts - they should be able to sign straight in to azure apps using the single sign on app

We're using WCF and currently we're hard-limited to 12 concurrent requests by the following entry in aspnet.config beneath system.web:

<applicationPool maxConcurrentRequestsPerCPU="12" maxConcurrentThreadsPerCPU="0" requestQueueLimit="5000"/>

It would be extremely useful from a performance perspective to be able to modify this value. I believe ASP.NET 4.0 has this set to a large value, so maybe the problem goes away once you deploy .NET 4.0 in Azure!

Configure IIS AppPool and Application settings in CSDEF

Please give a free account to developers (without asking credit card details) extend this for developers worldwide (not just for US.
If you still have problems you can select from your voluntary SME base or MCTS

A number of protocols require sending information about their external endpoints over the same or different channels. Having another property on RoleInstanceEndpoint with the IPEndPoint definition for the external IP and port would be very useful.

The new Management portal introduces the concept of linked resources. This feature is very useful, but there is not public api to manage these linked resources.
We are currently working on the automated deployment of our application to Azure, but this still needs to remain a manual step.
Please add (document) the REST api to manage linked resources and add a Powershell cmdlet to access the api.