Hi I’m Mike Wickstrand, Senior Director of Product Planning for Windows Azure. If you have something you need from Windows Azure, please tell us what it is and vote for other's ideas. I put a few things on the list just to get you started, but feel free to add your own! We want to better understand what you need from Windows Azure and to build plans around how we make the things that "bubble to the top" a reality for our customers in the future. Comments which aren't feature requests will be moderated. It’s that simple.
Thanks in advance!
Mike
| Mike Wickstrand | Senior Director, Windows Azure Product Planning | Microsoft |
| Email: mikewic@microsoft.com | http://www.twitter.com/wickstrand |
| Web: http://blogs.msdn.com/wickstrand/ |
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1,697 votes
Continue Azure offering free for Developers
After February 1st 2010, it's going to be tough for developers/freelancers/hobbiest to learn, test and deploy azure applications as it's going to be billed for everything.
Like Google AppEngine (http://code.google.com/appengine/whyappengine.html#norisk) Azure should provide free offering for de... more -
817 votes
Provide the ability to send Emails right from Azure
Ability to send Emails right from Azure (all roles).
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574 votes
Provide a way to schedule worker roles so they only run when needed
If worker roles could be scheduled, like windows task scheduler then we would massively reduce the required cpu time used.
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411 votes
Provide multiple roles per instance
Enables you to host more than one application on one Azure compute instance. Suitable for small departmental servers.
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311 votes
Provide DNS Services for my domains and sub-domains
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.
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195 votes
Provide me with full text search on table storage
Does what it says on the tin....really need better search capabilities over azure table storage.
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194 votes
Pay per minute instead of pay par hour
One thing that I like the most (and most needed by my business) about cloud computing is ability to fine tune the processing power available to exactly match the demand.
In this respect, I would even more interested if Azure was letting me adjust the number of instances much more aggressively, t... more
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170 votes
Support secondary Indexes
Need to be able to sort on something other than the rowkey
Status: plannedAnnounced at PDC that it's coming, see my comment below.
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164 votes
Create Elastic IPs so we can actually create web addressable apps with full DNS, not *.cloudapp.net
Right now, you can't use DNS to make your primary web app run seamlessly on Azure. Azure needs to add elastic IPs so you can point a mydomain.com at an Azure IP, instead of the current *.cloudapp.net requirement.
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135 votes
Add Distributed Caching to Azure (i.e. like Velocity / memcached)
So that multiple web roles can share the same cache.
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114 votes
Add MapReduce equivalent (low cost intensive parallelized CPU)
It would be really nice if Azure was featuring a MapReduce service to offload really intensive CPU operations.
Even better if MapReduce is made 100% .NET managed as it would allow processing power to be much more "burstable" (not need to redeploy entire VMs, only the .NET package).
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109 votes
UDP EndPoints
UDP endpoints would allow for full RTP/RTCP/RTSP media streaming implementations as well custom protocols for game systems.
