Windows Azure Feature Voting on UserVoice

Create a "beta" environment for .NET 4.0 tests and evaluation. [updated]

2012-02-04T11:07:15+08:00

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Ability to force the CDN to refresh a specific blob from Azure Blob Storage [updated]

2012-02-04T00:40:16+08:00

A new API to send a request to the CDN so that it invalidates an previously cached blob and forces a refetch from Azure Blob Storage. This would happen regardless of the original Cache Control header set for the blob.

MAnders said:

This feature request needs to be rephrased: Implement an API which permits purging items from the cache.

I bet if the feature name was changed, you'd suddenly get LOTS AND LOTS of votes for this!

Possibility to change subscription filter rules

2012-02-03T17:59:34+08:00

Henrik Olsson suggested:
To have a dynamic service bus, it must be possible to change subscription filter rules. Today, it seems that you have to delete the filter and create a new one.

Enable affinity groups to support inclusion of SQL Azure servers

2012-02-03T17:53:30+08:00

Telerik Sitefinity Development Team suggested:
Currently affinity groups support grouping only hosted services and storage accounts. The location of the database server is also critical for applications that rely on database performance and enabling affinity groups to include database servers is one way to solve this issue. As of 2011 the finest granularity that is allowed is to specify the same region, which still may create your database server in a datacenter hundreds of kilometers away and in combination with SQL Azure throttling spoil the overall performance of the application.

Provide a Service Bus emulator on a local computer [updated]

2012-02-03T16:35:49+08:00

Providing a Service Bus emulator on a local computer will reduce development costs.

Armen said:

Unlike Windows Azure Starage Queue there is no local emulator for the Service Bus Queue.

Provide a Service Bus emulator on a local computer

2012-02-03T16:33:42+08:00

Armen suggested:
Providing a Service Bus emulator on a local computer will reduce development costs.

Create guidance packages for common supported scenario's. So it's very easy to get started.

2012-02-02T16:20:07+08:00

Patrick suggested:
Create guidance packages for common supported scenario's. It should be very easy to get started. It should be not more complicated than : 1. Set your connection string to Azure, 2. point to an XSD and presto there is your webservice. 3. Want to store received requests in a table, just add that checkbox. 4. Want processing on that table, just cjeck that checkbox..... I could go on for a while. Having guidance will lower complexity, and give everyone a easy trouble free start. That is always a good thing.

Provide ServiceBus tunneling [updated]

2012-02-02T13:40:21+08:00

ServiceBus requires access to too many addresses and ports when establishing a connection from a published service. You should have 1 or 2 at the most ports that ServiceBus uses and everything gets tunneled through that. e.g. calls to: - accesscontrol - watchdog - sb-<servicename>... - etc. Would make configuration MUCH simpler. Imagine just opening a couple of ports to a defined IP range, rather than 6 ports to 16 different IP segments - just for one DC.

Mick Badran said:

This would make firewall configuration easy. Imagine that.

Provide ServiceBus tunneling

2012-02-02T13:39:46+08:00

Mick Badran suggested:
ServiceBus requires access to too many addresses and ports when establishing a connection from a published service. You should have 1 or 2 at the most ports that ServiceBus uses and everything gets tunneled through that. e.g. calls to: - accesscontrol - watchdog - sb-<servicename>... - etc. Would make configuration MUCH simpler. Imagine just opening a couple of ports to a defined IP range, rather than 6 ports to 16 different IP segments - just for one DC.

Azure Datacenters IP Ranges Listed

2012-02-02T13:34:27+08:00

Mick Badran suggested:
It would be great to have a CURRENT list of IP Ranges allocated to each Azure Datacenter. The page should be on the Management Portal somewhere, e.g. under "Windows Azure Service Status: Running" "Azure Current IP Ranges:...." Being on an endorsed MS page would ease Client's concerns about punching holes to not recognised IP Addresses.

Billing & Usage API [updated]

2012-02-02T00:00:58+08:00

Create a complete billing and usage API so that we can get our usage and cost data throught a simple .NET API call.

Chris said:

Billing and Usage API, especially bandwidth per instance would be very good. I can get this from my account in billing as an usage details csv, but it would be great if I could automise this and get this data via a web service or via api.

Turkey

2012-02-01T06:07:31+08:00

roser137 alper c suggested:
I'm Turkish add could't find 3 mouth trial support for Turkey. I'm offended. Just kidding not offended.

Add Cache emulator to Windows Azure Emulators

2012-02-01T05:07:13+08:00

Jack suggested:
I know I could install AppFabric Cache, but there are differences between caching On-Premises and in the Cloud. Other way around emulator would be to provide cheap, low memory, operational time-limited Cloud cache, for development purposes only.

Provide SLA for single instance Azure [updated]

2012-02-01T03:29:21+08:00

Currently Windows Azure Plafrorm offers SLA of 99.95% for compute service for Azure solutions that comprizes of 2 or more role instances. However, very often Azure is used to prove untested business ideas. It does not make sense to have to pay upfront for high-availability and additional components (Azure AppFabric Cache for Session state, etc). A lot of ISV will want to go to market with one instance and if the business idea works - scale out. So it would make sense that Microsoft defines an SLA for a solution comprizing of one role - obviously we would not expect 99.95% something like 90% SLA would be enough. For this to work we would also like that the updates in the datacenter do not happen during working hours in a given geography. Regards, Michal

David Rodriguez said:

Looking for the same here!

Access to CDN over SSL / HTTPS [updated]

2012-01-30T06:32:15+08:00

Currently the Azure Storage CDN feature doesn't support SSL, especially SSL using a custom domain. It would be awesome to be able to make use of the CDN feature with an SSL / HTTPS secured website.

simnova said:

+1 for ssl on custom domain

Why not available in my country? [updated]

2012-01-28T18:39:59+08:00

I tried to buy an zure plan today and suddenly after 10 minutes of registration i found a message telling me the service is not supported in your country. i live in UAE why it's not supported ? and why there is no such information about that

Iserbkin said:

+1 Latvija

nigeria

2012-01-26T18:46:07+08:00

pelumini suggested:
Azure should be availabe in nigeria

Add native MVC3 support to WebRoles

2012-01-26T18:02:49+08:00

Chaim Brykman suggested:
"Elementary my dear Watson"... So frustrating: at least 6 different assembiles ("NuGet.Core"?) required to run a basic MVC application.

Make it less expensive to run my very small service on Windows Azure. [updated]

2012-01-26T02:29:43+08:00

jinishans said:

Public Cloud isnt going tobe sucess until providers charge for actual ram, cpu usage instead of 24x7x365 availability. Theyre not understanding even without people moving to public cloud they still have those cpu, ram & hdd keep running, then why not charge only for actual usage...!

Provide DNS Services for my domains and sub-domains [updated]

2012-01-26T00:38:22+08:00

DNS is crucial - if it's down, my Azure web roles are down. I don't trust GoDaddy and Verisign with my production DNS, so I either need to have on-premise load balanced DNS servers or pay someone to do it. It would be great if Windows Azure took care of this for me.

Pete @ Philtinium said:

We've been using dnsazure.com which has done a superb job of handling our A records dynamically for our site soundtracktoyour.com. Still it would be useful if as part of the Azure platform that these services were offered too.

Ability to force the CDN to refresh a specific blob from Azure Blob Storage [updated]

2012-01-26T00:31:34+08:00

Pete @ Philtinium said:

Or just simply a mechanism to invalidate the CDN's for a blob in the Azure portal. Again I can't believe there are not more votes for this as I would have thought this a useful mechanism for anyone changing there static content on a regular basis i.e. developing sprites or JS/CSS. Currenty I have TTL of 1 day but when I launch a new version I don't want to wait a day for the content to catch up with the new release.

Allow a Role instnace count of 0 [updated]

2012-01-25T23:19:46+08:00

In many scenarios it is useful to have a role that is only run for certain periods of the day. At present this is very complex to achieve as it involved using the management API to deploy and undeploy a whole service (from Blob storage). it would be much more elegant if the role count could be set to Zero thus undeploying all instances of just that role. In this way other services in the project could use the management API to start and stop just that Role.

Thomas Jespersen said:

Damn... this is a great idea. I see allot of great opportunities with this feature.

Eg. we could have a deployment with the job with our monthly, weekly, once a day job.

Also this could solve the problem with stopped roles that still are billed. So when you click "stop" you get an option to select instance count of 0 (knowing that this will result in a new DeploymentId, IP and so on).

Make it less expensive to run my very small service on Windows Azure. [updated]

2012-01-25T21:46:31+08:00

Oz030 said:

A virtual server cost me 20$ a month. I would get 3 virtual servers for

- An extra small instance
- The minimum blob storage and transactions
- 1GB SQL databases

and then I have don't even have CDN, certificates, a DNS and a mail server. I really love Windows Azure and would love the see it be successfull. Windows Phone is so great as well but nobody knows because Microsoft can not convince people using this guy so PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE don't sleep! Convince us! Make it happen!

See costs in Azure management interface during trial

2012-01-25T21:33:30+08:00

Oz030 suggested:
During trial a cost counter for in the management interface would be great to see how much it would costs if I would run Azure with the current configuration.

Add IntelliTrace against the compute emulator

2012-01-24T23:32:08+08:00

Tom suggested:
Would be great to have IntelliTrace work against the local compute emulator.

Integrate Windows azure portal login to facebook login

2012-01-24T06:39:26+08:00

Yagnesh suggested:
Integrate Windows azure portal login to facebook login

make cache service less expesive

2012-01-24T02:37:18+08:00

zmorris suggested:
The cache service is just too expensive to use for a significant amount of data. Especially since it first uses memory from instances we've already paid for!

Create new SQL Azure role Backup-Manager and grant access to DAC WebService to users from that role

2012-01-21T19:22:55+08:00

Jack suggested:
So far only server-level principal can execute SQL Azure export to bacpac file using DAC WebService (i.e. https://am1prod-dacsvc.azure.com/DACWebService.svc/Export). I suggest you create new role 'backup manager' and grant execute of export service to users in that role.

UDP EndPoints [updated]

2012-01-21T00:52:17+08:00

UDP endpoints would allow for full RTP/RTCP/RTSP media streaming implementations as well custom protocols for game systems.

Mauro said:

UDP ports are necessary to deploy a RADIUS server.

First In First Out Support for Azure Storage Queue [updated]

2012-01-18T10:45:31+08:00

Ravi Mohan said:

Right now you have to use the Service Bus to get the FIFO ability. But the Storage queues are lot more simpler to use and would be great if it can assure FIFO.

First In First Out Support for Azure Storage Queue

2012-01-18T10:44:15+08:00

Offer ability for third parties to use Azure billing system for their customers [updated]

2012-01-18T03:30:53+08:00

Mrinal Jaiswal said:

This is needed.

In case we are developing a SaaS application, which end user will purchase from Microsoft Marketplace. We need api to add our amount into the bill being generated for customer by Microsoft.

Offer a free version for 'Dreamspark' students [updated]

2012-01-18T00:44:10+08:00

As other Microsoft software is available for 'free' for students through the DreamSpark program, why not add a basic Windows Azure plan? It would make it a lot easier for students / educators to learn about Windows Azure and cloud computing, who would otherwise be 'billed for everything'.

Simon said:

Currently I have no possibility to evaluate or test Windows Azure (a 90-day test account is not an option for me and I think a lot of other students,too). So this is a great idea.

Support secondary Indexes [updated]

2012-01-14T04:52:15+08:00

Need to be able to sort on something other than the rowkey

GimmeRank said:

I like to know: primary index is PartitionKey+RowKey, will the secondary index be: RowKey+PartitionKey or we can customize it

DBCC CHECKIDENT

2012-01-13T08:54:16+08:00

Joe Abrams suggested:
It would be great to have the ability to manipulate identity seeds on SQL Azure, like we have in other version of SQL Server.

add the ability to use preconfigure iso images like Amazon in VM role [updated]

2012-01-12T22:44:45+08:00

Give the ability in VM role to use a preconfigure iso image, like the one Amazon has available.It will make easier to use and work with the VM role

P Ohms said:

5) Ability to have VM boot and run off ISO. Not good for Windows VMs but great for BSD and Linux.

Improve the experience of deploying my application to Windows Azure. [updated]

2012-01-12T22:38:44+08:00

P Ohms said:

Deployment times are abysmal. Having come from EC2 to work on Azure, it's a huge frustration. It is simply not usable. For a small app single instance, we see deployment times in the range of 8-15 minutes (heavily skewed to the upper end) and for a deployment of 5 machines the time varies between 30-50 minutes. It's appauling. Upload time of the application is fine, it's just deployment itself takes forever.

The path we've not tried, but perhaps should is doing development in a VM with VS2010 installed. For now, we've been using VS on development machines and uploading either via the web UI or from VS itself.

EC2 was massively better. Development locally, upload binaries and open source tools to VM, enable debugger on VM, get staging working. Replicate, deploy, done. Breeze.

Why are there no tools to help with diagnostics and logging from MSFT? The integration of tables in VS is read-only and having to use generic third party table manipulation tools is a pain.

add the ability to use preconfigure iso images like Amazon in VM role [updated]

2012-01-12T17:42:23+08:00

Give the ability in VM role to use a preconfigure iso image, like the one Amazon has available.It will make easier to use and work with the VM role

P Ohms said:

To be clear:

1) ISO images can be trivially made from command-line tools on Windows or your OS. They require no admin rights, unlike creating VHDs on Windows. Creating VHDs typically requires two invocations of diskpart and the use of a shell script and admin rights, ie not something your really want as part of your build process.

2) ISO images have less overhead than VHDs since you don't have to guess the appropriate size before creating the image. VHDs with NTFS include lots of chaff that is not needed for read-only.

3) ISO images better suit read-only operation. No need to snapshot, just don't allow mounting read-write. When running foreign applications on Windows (e.g. Java), the runtime and libraries required are all read-only.

4) In 2010, the Windows code base got that ability to mount VHDs so it's not completely impossible to achieve. NB On Linux/BSD this has been possible for 15 years.

regarding the usage of wasabi [updated]

2012-01-11T11:00:53+08:00

HI, I was one of the voters for the auto-scaling application block (wasabi) and was evaluating for one of my projects requirement. I have a few queries whose response if received would be very helpful for the inclusion of this application block in our projects. 1. After the installation of the package using NuGet, when I tried to edit the application config of the host (for the wasabi) using the Enterprise library configuration console (installed the latest one from visual studio gallery) and trying to same, always was getting the following error message (even if I mentioned false for the “Track requests” and “use blob execution lease”): “The application could not save the configuration information to the configuration file. Please try to save the configuration to a different file. Error message : Required attribute 'advancedOptions' not found.” Are the fields under the “advanced options” section mandatory? 2. Can I use the wasabi for tracking and scaling an application running in dev-fabric i.e. the local azure compute emulator? Actually currently we are facing some issue in using our azure account so was trying to use the block for watching an application running locally in the azure compute emulator. Actually I have this concern because while defining the service model xml I found that the details like subscriptionid, certificatethumbprint , etc to be mentioned in the subscription element are mandatory. If it is possible to test the wasabi to scaling an application locally then please let me know how to achieve the same, may be through some code/config snippets or any online article or blog. 3. I have installed and made reference to the application block using NuGet. But the issue is every time I need to use the application block in my different projects I have to be online and install the concerned package again and again. Because the installation of package happens locally to the project to which it is referred. And sometime because of folder structure created by the block, the file/dll name becomes too large. Waiting for your response. Thanks in advance, Rahul (Rahul_bandopadhyaya@infosys.com) Bangalore, INDIA

Grigori Melnik (Producer) said:

Rahul, wrong venue to get support. This site is for suggesting and voting on the new features. Post your questions to http://entlib.codeplex.com/discussions/topics/5173/windows-azure-integration-pack

Add an option to enable low Latency on Azure instances

2012-01-11T07:00:07+08:00

Ivan Fioravanti suggested:
Currently latency of Azure instances is too high. 250 ms is the limit to be considered acceptable for web sites, but for online web services in some cases is too high.

Billing & Usage API [updated]

2012-01-07T03:33:56+08:00

Create a complete billing and usage API so that we can get our usage and cost data throught a simple .NET API call.

Vignan said:

Windows Azure Storage Metrics API has a way to track usage:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazurestorage/archive/2011/08/03/windows-azure-storage-metrics-using-metrics-to-track-storage-usage.aspx

Support secondary Indexes [updated]

2012-01-04T00:13:51+08:00

Need to be able to sort on something other than the rowkey

manny said:

Its 2012. Any updates on when secondary indexes would be available. Should we plan on it being available in the near future or should we implement workarounds like storing the data multiple times with different RowKeys. As ray247 mentions not needing to make big code changes would be great and we do not want to put in unnecessary optimizations if secondary indexes are going to come by soon...

Email notification for Azure guest OS new updates before Microsoft applies these on VM's

2012-01-03T17:07:25+08:00

Ammar suggested:
Microsoft should send an email alert to the Azure service administrators before applying Guest OS updates. If a developer do not mention Guest OS version in Azure config file then Microsoft keeps updating the VM with latest releases and patches which is fine, but Microsoft should send an email alert 1 or 2 days earlier before applying any update to the VM's.

provide a sharepoint foundation role: instances with SPF2010 preinstalled, joined into NT domain [updated]

2012-01-02T02:21:23+08:00

Hi! Whats about providing a Sharepoint Foundation multi-instance role (subkind of VM role may be?). Differences: a) instances joined into an NT domain with accounts like [serviceid_sibscriptionid]\UserName; b) SQL Azure server required for SP databases and specified in roles config. c) Servers are joined into the farm, instance 0 hosts Centraladmin; May be i mussed something?

Konstantin Isaev said:

2 CherryBoy - Sharepoint does not support multi-tenant databases (retry of action on SQL request error) and needs full access to SQL server - do things which usually SA (SQL Server Super admin does - set permisisons to databases, etc at leat during its setup).

provide a sharepoint foundation role: instances with SPF2010 preinstalled, joined into NT domain [updated]

2012-01-02T02:12:14+08:00

CherryBoy said:

I would love that idea! Not sure why a great product of MS wont work in Azure....

provide a sharepoint foundation role: instances with SPF2010 preinstalled, joined into NT domain

2012-01-02T02:08:34+08:00

Konstantin Isaev suggested:
Hi! Whats about providing a Sharepoint Foundation multi-instance role (subkind of VM role may be?). Differences: a) instances joined into an NT domain with accounts like [serviceid_sibscriptionid]\UserName; b) SQL Azure server required for SP databases and specified in roles config. c) Servers are joined into the farm, instance 0 hosts Centraladmin; May be i mussed something?

Offer a free version for 'Dreamspark' students [updated]

2012-01-01T03:29:43+08:00

Ajay said:

definitely a good idea...

add the ability to use preconfigure iso images like Amazon in VM role

2011-12-31T13:50:35+08:00

P Velachoutakos suggested:
Give the ability in VM role to use a preconfigure iso image, like the one Amazon has available.It will make easier to use and work with the VM role

Managed VMs [updated]

2011-12-31T13:47:42+08:00

Most of the projects that we handle does not use a pure Microsoft stack or may require a third party software to be pre-installed. Managed VMs will give the clients to pick, choose and install their software combinations that they are most comfortable with while they rely on Microsoft for hosting.

P Velachoutakos said:

Also to add the ability to use preconfigure iso images like Amazon does

Allow sql backup for Sql Azure [updated]

2011-12-31T13:44:27+08:00

Not knowing where your data is and moving to another cloud hosting provider could be a nightmare if you cant retrieve the stored data into one file

P Velachoutakos said:

You can try the import ,export feature ,sending a export backup to storage account.