1. SINGAPORE
ANYONE, INTRODUCTION
Ryan CrawCour
Development Evangelist, Azure Incubation Team, Microsoft
Cloud
Computing
With The
Windows
Azure Platform

2. “Types” of Cloud Stuff
“IaaS” “PaaS” “SaaS”
Infrastructure-as-a-Service Platform-as-a-Service Software-as-a-Service
host build consume

3. Cloud Services
Packaged Infrastructure Platform Software
(as a Service) (as a Service) (as a Service)
Software
You manage
Applications Applications Applications Applications
Data You manage Data Data Data
Runtime Runtime Runtime Runtime
Managed by vendor
Middleware Middleware Middleware Middleware
Managed by vendor
You manage
O/S O/S O/S O/S
Managed by vendor
Virtualization Virtualization Virtualization Virtualization
Servers Servers Servers Servers
Storage Storage Storage Storage
Networking Networking Networking Networking

4. Introducing Windows Azure Platform

5. ARC
Architects /
Key Decision Makers
Infrastructure
INF
Professionals
Database
DBA
Administrators
Developers DEV

6. beta
Compute Virtual Machines
Storage Access Control
Service Bus Database
CTP
Business Intelligence Caching
Content Delivery Marketplace
CTP
Virtual Network

7. Compute
Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS)
Application hosting environment
Automated
Flexible
.NET & IIS, or anything else that runs on Windows Server today
Web / Worker Roles
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8. Storage
CHEAP! LARGE! SCALE!
Tables, Queues and Blobs
REST and Managed APIs
Fault tolerance
Geo-replication
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9. Database
Database-as-a-Service
SQL 2008 Fork
Serve both on-premises & Cloud apps
No physical administration required
Scale On-Demand
1GB – 50GB
Cheap! (1GB == $9.99 USD pm)
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10. Content Delivery Network
Content closer to end-users
24 physical nodes
Smooth streaming capable
Reduce Web Role traffic
CNAME
Be careful with double up costs!
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11. Content Delivery Network
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12. CTP
Reporting
SSRS on SQL Azure
Business Intelligence Design Studio (BIDS)
Export to various popular file formats
Scale and flex to meet elastic demand
SQL Authentication only
No email, or subscriptions
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13. beta
Virtual Machines
Virtual Machine Role
Is not Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V vhd
Load balanced / failover / scalable
No guest OS patching
Migrate easily
Minimise start-up task execution
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14. Service Bus
Service Bus
exposes a
static public
endpoint
Application #2 Application #1

15. Service Bus
Loosely (de)coupled applications
Send/Receive from any internet connected device
Traverse NAT/Firewall
Facilitate direct peer-to-peer connection
REST API
Pub / Sub through Topics & Queues

16. Access Control
Federated Identity with existing Identity Mngt Systems
Outsource your authentication
Support multiple forms of Authentication
Flexible standards-based
Authorisation is still your responsibility!
Free until Jan 2012
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17. Access Control Service
Map input claims to
output claims using
Rules
Identity
Identity
Identity
Provider
Provider
Provider
Establish Trust with Identity User supplies
Providers & Define Mapping credentials directly to
Rules each Identity Provider
Identity Provider
validates User &
returns it’s own
token
Requesting party requests access
Token
validated, Transformed ACS token presented
Claims
verified Access to application is granted
Relying party requests access token

18. Caching
Cache-as-a-Service
Shared, in memory
128 Mb, 256 Mb, 512 Mb, 1 Gb, 2 Gb, 4 Gb, …
Dynamically increase/decrease cache size
Pre-built ASP.Net Session, ASP.Net Page Out
[Serializable]
Secured through ACS
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19. Virtual Network CTP
Windows Azure Connect
Point to point secured connection
Agent install
Full control of which machines/roles partake
Use cases:
– Domain join and AD authentication
– Private SMTP
– On-premises database access
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20. Virtual Network CTP
Windows Azure Traffic Manager
Route between Azure datacentres
Performance, Failover, or Round Robin
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21. Virtual Network CTP
Windows Azure Traffic Manager
TM
HONG KONG
X IRELAND
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22. Marketplace
One-stop shop for Applications & Data
Broad Global exposure
Unified billing & provisioning
Ability to provide trial offers out-of-the-box
Pre-built integration with Office
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23. Thank You !
ryan.crawcour@microsoft.com @ryancrawcour

24. Windows Azure Application Feature Gallery
If you are a Singapore company and have a
Windows Azure Application, please let us
know as we would like to feature you in events
and showcases. Thanks! 
Contact Bok Thye Yeow at
a-thybok@microsoft.com
6888 7453

25. Q&A
ryan.crawcour@microsoft.com @ryancrawcour