Windows Azure 3 Month free trial

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Windows Azure 3 Month free trial

Try Windows Azure

Absolutely Free. No Obligation.

A Windows Live ID and credit card are required for proof of identity. There is no obligation to purchase at the end of the free trial.

unleash your imagination

Web
Deliver high traffic Web sites with great reliability and excellent performance.
SaaS
Build and sell software as a services based applications for enterprise, consumer and mobile customers.
Enterprise
Run your business applications in the cloud to reduce TCO. Enable hybrid solution that span public cloud and on premise data centers.
Mobile
Build and scale back-end services needed to support applications running on any type of device.

the free trial includes

Free Trial Details

compute VM	750 small compute hours per month
relational database	1GB web edition SQL Azure database
storage	20GB with 1,000,000 storage transactions
content delivery network	500,000 CDN transactions
bandwidth	Unlimited inbound / 20GB Outbound

A credit card is required to sign up for the trial. The trial includes monthly allocations for use. If you exceed these allocations, a spending limit will apply and your service will be disabled until the beginning of the next billing month; you will be required to redeploy your application and your subscription will expire at the end of the trial. If you remove the spending limit, any usage in excess of the monthly allocation will be charged at standard rates. At the end of the trial, any further usage will be charged at the standard rates. Once the spending limit has been disabled, it cannot be enabled again.

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Windows Azure

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Windows Azure

What is Windows Azure?

Windows Azure is an operating system that serves as the development, service hosting, and service management environment for the Windows Azure platform. The Windows Azure platform consists of an infrastructure of hardware, software, network, and storage resources. Windows Azure handles load balancing and resource management and automatically manages the life cycle of a hosted service based on defined requirements. Developers can build and deploy applications as a hosted service for Windows Azure by using the .NET Framework, unmanaged code, or other approaches.

A Windows Azure hosted service can contain web role, worker role, and VM role instances. As its name suggests, a web role instance can accept incoming HTTP or HTTPS requests and can support web application programming hosted in IIS. Worker role instances are similar to, but not quite the same as a web role. The main difference is that a worker role instances is not hosted by IIS. Instead, they are executable in their own right. A VM role differs from a web role and a worker role, because with these roles, you focus on creating and running your code in an operating system that is managed by Windows Azure; for the VM role, you provide a preconfigured operating system image.

Applications can consist of solely web role instances, only worker role instances, only VM role instances, or a combination of all three. When the load increases for your application, you can request more instances of any of the defined roles. By running multiple instances of a role, Windows Azure helps the application scale. Scalability is achieved through virtualization. As you need to scale capacity, you can spin up new virtual machines to handle the added traffic and when the extra capacity is no longer needed you can release them.

The following illustration shows the components that are part of Windows Azure.

Windows Azure Top Level Feature to Capability View

For more information about Windows Azure and the new features available in the latest release, see About Windows Azure. When you are ready to get started with you first Windows Azure application, see Get Started Now!