
Understand how Windows Azure Web Sites run via a stateless IIS 8 worker process, with files in Azure Blob Storage and config in a hosting database behind the load balancer.
Demonstrates blob storage in action by building a dropbox-like app, uploading and deleting files to a blob container, and generating a time-limited shared access signature for secure sharing.
Understand how cloud services fit the Azure compute strategy, focusing on cloud service roles, role instances, and the fabric controller that manages lifecycle.
Explore advanced Azure cloud services features, including configuration settings and service configuration files, endpoints, and startup tasks, to manage storage, monitoring, and dynamic VM customization.
Learn about Azure SQL Database as a service, featuring service and platform layers, primary and two secondary replicas for built-in redundancy and high availability.
In this 2 1/2 hour course you will learn about the Windows Azure Platform, Microsoft's set of cloud technologies and services. The course will focus on Azure Web Sites, Azure storage, cloud services and SQL Database - in addition to learning about these services you'll see demonstrations that will help you get started yourself.