I have been on a queueing kick lately, and have been looking for a software as a service provider that offers a queuing system in the cloud. The first obvious choices were: Windows Azure Service Bus and Amazon Simple Queue Service. I would most likely choose Windows Azure, just due to the fact that ...

Today, Windows Azure Infrastructure Services (IaaS), including Virtual Machines and Virtual Networking, has reached general availability. These new services make it possible for you to move your applications into the cloud as is.

In this post, we’ll explore HDInsight/Hadoop on Azure in general and steps for starting with the same and writing Map Reduce Jobs for Hadoop using C# in particular to store results in HDFS, and programmatic Job submission.

If you’re a web developer working with ASP.NET, Node.js, PHP, Python, or you have plans on building your site in C++, Windows Azure Web Sites is the best thing since sliced bread. With support for virtually every method of deployment and with support for most of the major web development models you ...

Great resources for learning all about Windows Azure.

I'm extremely excited to announce the release of our official Android SDK for Windows Azure Mobile Services. Android developers now have easy access to structured data storage, authentication, push notifications using Google Cloud Messaging(GCM) and more in the form of a native Java SDK.

Great article on securing Azure ServiceConfiguration settings

Several weeks ago we launched a new hub for Windows Azure on Channel 9. This hub will serve as an index and entry point for all video content related to Windows Azure. Introduction videos have been created for core services like Mobile Services, Web Sites, Cloud Services, and SQL Databases. This pag...

I'm excited to share the news that we have released a number of new iOS samples for Windows Azure Mobile Services. These samples demonstrate common scenarios that developers will run into when using Mobile Services. All of these samples have been open sourced on GitHub and are available today.

I've moved my blog to Azure and everything worked smoothly. For a while...

A few weeks ago Microsoft announced the release of the VM Depot, a community-driven catalog of VM Images. Deploying a Virtual Machine with an image from the VM Depot was pretty easy: Download/Upload the VM image yourself. Use the azure-cli to do all the work But it looks like the VM Depot now s...

Quickly building a powerful real time service with cron jobs (scheduled tasks) and push notifications for any client on top of Azure Mobile Services.

If you’re using the Windows Azure Access Control Service (or any other STS for that matter) this is an issue you might encounter when your Web Role has more than one instance: [CryptographicException: Key not valid for use in specified state.] System.Security.Cryptography.ProtectedData.Unprotect...

I’m pleased to announce that Windows Azure Media Encoding, Encoding Reserved Unit, and On-Demand Streaming Reserved Unit are now generally available with the support of service level agreements.