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AdminGuy Haycock
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SQL Azure added federations in Dec 2011, which is our implementation of the sharding application pattern
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AdminHaris Majeed
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At PDC 2010, we announced that the Web role will soon provide full IIS functionality, which enables multiple IIS sites per Web role and the ability to install IIS modules. The full IIS functionality enables developers to get more value out of a Windows Azure instance. Full IIS Support will be generally available to customers later this year.
Please let us know if there are important scenarios that the combination of admin mode + full IIS won’t solve for you.
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This is indeed good news, however, what about something similar for worker roles? I think what I'd like to see is the ability to architect your application as a number of web and worker roles and then to choose at deployment time whether all roles run on the same compute instance, or all web roles go to one compute instance and all worker roles go to another or any combination thereof. I think in some ways if you consider how BizTalk Server has a rich hosting model and allows you to enlist artefacts such as adapter handlers and orchestrations against one or more hosts, I see the same configurability of combining or separating web and worker roles across compute instances as and when demand requires it.
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910 votescompleted ·AdminHaris Majeed
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There are at least three ways to enable e-mail for your Azure applications:
1.Using a custom on-premise Email Forwarder Service.
2. Using Email Server’s Web Services APIs
3.Using a third party SMTP Service
All are described in more depth here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazure/archive/2010/10/08/adoption-program-insights-sending-emails-from-windows-azure-part-1-of-2.aspx?wa=wsignin1.0
Please help us understand what scenarios (if any) these patterns don’t address for your applications.
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AdminCalvin
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At PDC 2010 Microsoft announced the Extra Small Instance, which will be priced at $0.05 per compute hour in order to make the process of development, testing and trial easier. This will make it affordable for developers interested in running smaller applications on the platform. A beta of this role will be available before the end of 2010.
Please let us know if this addresses your needs for a more cost effective Azure offering.
Paul Brown
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Much better pricing - now, can you do the same with SQL Azure? :-)
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In order to take credit card payments we are going to need to be PCI compliant (the merchants will often insist). Surely the intention of Azure is to also support SaaS vendors that will take card payments for their services which therefore makes PCI compliance quite crucial.