25. SQL Azure Application Architectures T-SQL (TDS) Application / Tools SQL Azure access from outside Code Far SQL Azure SOAP/REST HTTP/S SQL Azure access from within Datacenter Windows Azure T-SQL (TDS) Web Role ADO.NET Data Svcs/REST - EF HTTP/S SQL Azure Application/ Browser Code Near
Firewall friendly messaging between cloud and on-premise
20 Hosted Service Projects 5 Storage Accounts 5 roles per Hosted Service (i.e. 3 different web roles + 2 different worker roles or any such combination) 20 CPU cores across all of your Hosted Service Projects Blobs: 200GB for block blobs (64KB min, 4MB max block size) 64MB is the limit for a single blob before you need to use blocks 1TB for page blobs Tables: 252 user defined properties Entity <= 1MB, limited to supported types or in case of binary/string <= 64KB Queues: Messages <= 8K
£56 per month for 1 node £637 per year DB – 20pence per day *Approximate – lots of assumptions, blah blah