Writing Cost Effective Code On Windows Azure

1. Cost Effective Coding In
Windows Azure

4. Allocated Load
IT-capacities Forecast
Undercapacity
Overcapacity Fixed cost of
IT CAPACITY
IT-capacities
Investment
Actual
Load
TIME

5. Load
Allocated IT Forecast
capacities
No undercapacity
IT CAPACITY
Reduction of Possible
overcapacity reduction of
IT-capacities
in case of
Reduction reduced load
of initial
investments
Actual Load
TIME

7. the services used
Windows Azure SQL Azure Azure AppFabric
5. Access
3. Storage 6. Service Bus
1. Compute 2. Storage 4. DB Control
Transactions Connections
Transactions
+ the data transfer consumed
Outside the 7. ingress
DataCenter
datacenter
8. egress

9. • Licenses • Server room
• OS License • Rent
• SQL Server License • Cooling
• Hardware investment • Lighting
• Server • Cleaning
• Disks • Smoke detectors
• Racks • Tapes for backup
• Switches • Salary for admin people
• UPS • Install hardware
• Network cables • Maintain hardware
• Hardware maintanance • Apply OS patches
• Power consumption of hardware • Backup/Restore operations
• Server • Firewall/DMZ configuration
• Disk • Clear logfiles
• Racks • Taxes on Salaries
• Swithes • Time spent on procurement cycle of
• Insurance of hardware hardware / Licenses
• Insurance on server room • ...

14. Compute Instance I/O
CPU Memory
Instance Size Storage Performance
Small 1.6 GHz 1.75 GB 225 GB Moderate
Medium 2 x 1.6 GHz 3.5 GB 490 GB High
Large 4 x 1.6 GHz 7 GB 1,000 GB High
Extra large 8 x 1.6 GHz 14 GB 2,040 GB High

16. Instance hours are accumulated by each hosted service that contains a deployed
project, regardless if the service is running or suspended.

17. When the box is
gray,
you’re okay.
When the box is
blue
a bill is due.

29. $9.99
$49.95
$99.99
$199.98
$299.97
$399.96
$499.95

34. if (Session["culture"].ToString() == "en-US") {
// .. set to English ...
}
if (Session["culture"].ToString() == "nl-BE") {
// .. set to Dutch ...
}
string culture = Session["culture"].ToString();
if (culture == "en-US") {
// .. set to English ...
}
if (culture == "nl-BE") {
// .. set to Dutch ...
}