When browsing to a WCF endpoint hosted in an Azure web role you normally get back a web page for the service showing the location of the individual node / web role that is serving up your request (seen blurred out here) instead of the actual endpoint.
This isn’t great as you don’t want everyone knowing [...]

I have recently been asked a number of questions both internally and from customers about when you will be billed for Azure usage.
As Eric Nelson’s recent post describes, if you suspend a service you will still be paying this is due to the fact you will still have your application deployed on the server ready [...]

Memcached is a distributed cache used to help speeding up large scale web applications by taking pressure off the database. Memcached is used by many of the internets biggest sites, including Twitter, Wikipedia, and YouTube to name just a few.
A distributed cache is one of the things that I’ve been hoping to see released for [...]

In a previous post I mentioned using the Service Management API sample library to call out to the Azure fabric from within a C# application.
The natural progression from here was to get the code working from within a web or worker role instance hosted within the cloud. Using a web role, I used the OnStart [...]

I previously published an article showing how the Service Management API and the csmanage tool could be used to aid in the deployment of your Windows Azure application as part of your daily build.
Once I had began playing with the API’s, I wanted to be able to use them within an application so that I [...]

This afternoon I noticed that I was able to select Europe and Asia regions to deploy my Azure application.
I have yet to see official word of these locations being available, but this must be for the move from CTP to production.

PDC brought a lot of new cloud content to Azure, however one great feature that has been added to the Windows Azure portal seems to have been slightly overlooked.
The total cost of ownership (TCO) and return on investment (ROI) calculator allows end users and organisations see how much money they are likely to save [...]

Last week I had an article featured in the UK MSDN Flash magazine, the article was describing how I have set up your automated builds to deploy to Windows Azure using the recently released management services.

The article “Deploying to the Cloud as Part of Your Daily Build” can be found here.
You can also find [...]

I have recently been working on a big Azure application that we have been wanting to deploy to the cloud and test, to make sure that no unexpected bugs occur whilst the application is in the wild and give the opportunity to see how it performs.
Now the big problem has been deploying our application to [...]