An Introduction to the Windows Azure Platform

Robert DuffnerDirector, Product Management

Delivers IT as a Service… Freeing You Up to Focus on Your Business

Cloud Computing

How do you manage 200+ Sites and Services…

…at huge scale and on a 24 x 7 basis?

More than 28 billion queries per month

320 million active accounts

400 million active accounts

More than 1 billion authentications per day

Processes 2–4 billion e-mails per day

550 million unique visitors monthly

CLOUD COMPUTING

IT as a Service

INFRASTRUCTUREAS A SERV ICE

PLATFORMAS A SERV ICE

SOFTWAREAS A SERV ICE

INFRASTRUCTUREAS A SERV ICE

PLATFORMAS A SERV ICE

CLOUD COMPUTINGSOFTWARE

AS A SERV ICE

IT as a Service

Platform Today

Server, VM, Network, Storage, AppPatch, Service Release, New Version

Custom, Inconsistent

Plan for Peak Load

Assembly Required

Built to Avoid & Recover from Failure

App

Maintained for You

Standardized

On-Demand Scale

Ready-Made Services

Built to Expect & Withstand Failure

Platform as a Service

Cloud Computing LandscapeSAAS

PAAS

IAAS

SERVICE PROVIDERS GLOBAL PROVIDERSCUSTOMER

Microsoft Datacenter Innovation

Unprecedented scale: 10,000’s servers in multiple

datacenters

4th generation data centres: containers &

energy efficiency

Advanced networking &

automating process management

Associated services:

integrated Content Delivery Network

What it isAzure Service in Your Datacenter

Windows Azure & SQL Azure

Designed for Unlimited Scale & Multi-tenancy

Identical to the Hardware in Azure Datacenters

Delivered by a Choice of Hardware PartnersBenefits

Physical Control

Geographic Proximity

Regulatory Compliance

Data Sovereignty

First Wave Adopters

Commercial Cloud Services

BUSINESS APPSCOLLABORATION STORAGE PLATFORMMANAGEMENTPRODUCTIVITY COMMUNICATIONS

DEEP INVESTMENTS IN INFRASTRUCTUREOver $2B invested in cloud infrastructureGeo-replicated customer dataPublic and private cloud flexibility30,000 engineers working on cloud services

COMMITMENT TO SERVICES EXCELLENCE

Financially-backed uptime guaranteesSAS 70 and ISO 27001 compliantCarbon footprint innovationRapid innovation model

ON PREMISES OFFERINGS

CLOUD OFFERINGS

The Windows Azure Platform

AppFabric

Compute Storage Management Relational data Management Connectivity Access control

AppFabric

CDN

Developer ExperienceUse existing skills and tools.

Windows Azure Content Delivery Network (CDN)Priced per GB transferred/month (prices shown in USD)

North America Region Europe Region

Asia Pacific Region

$0.15 GB Ingress

$0.01 per 10,000 transactions

$0.15 GB Ingress

$0.01 per 10,000 transactions

$0.20 GB Ingress

$0.01 per 10,000 transactions

Seattle, WA

Dublin, IELondon, GB

Newark, NJ

Amsterdam, NL

Sydney, AU

Hong Kong, HK

Miami, FL

Ashburn, VA

Chicago, IL

San Antonio, TX

Bay Area, CALos Angeles, CA

Paris, FRZurich, CH

Stockholm, SE

Vienna, AT

São Paulo, BR

Tokyo, JP

Singapore, SG

Over 2 terabits per second of capacity is available at 99.95% availability from our 22 global locations. CDN service scales automatically without

user intervention

Taipei, TWN

Seoul, KR

Usage

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Time

Average

Inactivity

Period

“On and Off “

On and off workloads (e.g. batch job)Over provisioned capacity is wasted Time to market can be cumbersome

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“Unpredictable Bursting“

Average Usage

Unexpected/unplanned peak in demand Sudden spike impacts performance Can’t over provision for extreme cases

Average Usage

Com

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Time

“Growing Fast“

Successful services needs to grow/scale Keeping up w/growth is big IT challenge Complex lead time for deployment

Com

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Time

Average Usage

“Predictable Bursting“

Services with micro seasonality trends Peaks due to periodic increased demandIT complexity and wasted capacity

Workload Patterns Optimal for Cloud

PDC10 Announcements

• Virtual Machine Role• Server Application Virtualization• SQL Azure Reporting• SQL Azure Data Sync• AppFabric Access Control• AppFabric Connect• Windows Azure Marketplace

• Windows Azure Virtual Network• Remote Desktop• Elevated Privileges• Full IIS Suport• Multiple Admins• Improved Java Support• Other Windows Azure Enhancements

Thank You!

Robert DuffnerDirector, Product ManagementEmail: rduffner@microsoft.comTwitter: @rduffner