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 [...]

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.

Over the past few months I have been part of an extremely exciting project, I am pleased that I am finally able to share it with you.
Eye On Earth is a new application that provides air and water quality to more than 500 million people across Europe, using both measurement stations and modelling data, along [...]

The guys over at NxtGenUG Oxford have invited me along on the 5th of January 2010 to give a talk on Windows Azure and to share what I have learned over the past couple of months whilst developing on the platform.
Along with my talk, Ben Nunney will be giving a presentation on Powershell for [...]

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 [...]

SQL Azure, that’s just a SQL Database in the cloud right? Wrong… It actually offers all this and then some.
This new “hand drawn” video from the SQL Azure team shows why SQL Azure is much more than just a simple database and how it can make life easier and cheaper for all those database guys [...]

After months of hard work the Eye On Earth project has been launched and released to the public (go take a look).
The project undertaken for the European Environmental Agency allows users to view and rate up to date environmental information about both the air and water quality around Europe, utilizing many bleeding edge technologies such [...]

I mentioned in my last post that I presented on “What Is Windows Azure?” at the first Reading Geek Night. This presentation was aimed at people who are new to the world of Windows Azure and aimed to be a quick introduction to wet their appetites.

What Is Windows Azure
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