SQL Azure
10th May 2012
Amazon Enters Microsoft's Turf of .NET PaaS
The PaaS competition heats up with Amazon adding ASP.NET support to its Elastic Beanstalk environment and MS SQL Server to the RDS offerings. This is a significant announcement from Amazon as it draws the battle lines with Microsoft which is aggressively positioning Windows Azure as the .NET Cloud offering to the developer community.
20th Feb 2012
Cloud Storage Choices on Windows Azure
Many architects face the challenge of mapping and aligning the physical architecture with the Cloud architecture. This is primarily due to the wide array of choices on the Cloud and also due to some of the constraints introduced by the Cloud. Storage is one of the most critical players influencing the availability, reliability and cost of a Cloud application. This article summarizes various Cloud storage choices that are offered by Windows Azure. The objective is to identify the key role played by each of the storage services and highlight the common use case for that service.
14th Feb 2012
AWS & Windows Azure - Side by Side Comparison
Many customers evaluating Public Cloud will invariably consider Amazon Web Services and Windows Azure. With both the stacks adding new services at a rapid pace, it becomes hard to understand how the features stack up. This is an attempt to put them side by side and do a quick comparison of the features. We will be updating this grid to reflect the latest additions to either stacks.