Transcript 10 Great Questions to ask about the Windows Azure Platform

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North
Central USA
Northern
Europe
Eastern Asia
Western
Europe
South
Central USA
Southeast
Asia
24 x Node
CDN
First Mega Datacentre built
outside the US, on-line on July
2009
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Cost $500 million
EU Datacenter Best Practice Award
Winner
Stand-alone Server Pods
 Environmentally Sustainable
 Free Air-Cooling via Air-Side
Economization
 1 % water use vs. traditional
facilities
100ms
50ms
foo-us.cloudapp.net
foo-europe.cloudapp.net
foo-asia.cloudapp.net
*Performance – traffic sent to closest service in terms of network latency
*Round Robin – traffic distributed equally across all services
*Failover – traffic sent to primary service, if offline, to next service in a list
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Question: How do you sell 150,000 Tickets in 10 Seconds?
Answer: 750 Compute Instances and 550 databases
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Storage and Delivery
BING REALTIME FACEBOOK/TWITTER SEARCH INGESTION ENGINE
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Windows Azure
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Windows Azure Tables
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IT CAPACITY
Not Enough
Power
Allocated
IT-capacities
Too Much
Power
Actual Load
TIME
Load
Forecast
IT CAPACITY
No screaming
customers
Capacity on
Demand
No capital
laying idle
Load
Forecast
Resources go
up...
And...
down
Lower Capex
Actual Load
TIME
Compute
Price
Extra small instance
$0.05 per hour
Small instance (default)
$0.12 per hour
Medium instance
$0.24 per hour
Large instance
$0.48 per hour
Extra Large instance
$0.96 per hour
SQL Azure
$99.99 per database up to 10GB per month
$199.98 per database up to 20GB per month
$299.97 per database up to 30GB per month
$399.96 per database up to 40GB per month
$499.95 per database up to 50GB per month
Windows Azure storage
$0.15 per GB stored per month based on the daily average
$0.01 per 10,000 storage transactions
Data transfers
North America and Europe regions: $0.15 per GB out
Asia Pacific Region: $0.20 per GB out
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/pricing-calculator/
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You decide (Dublin)
It depends (but yes)
Enormous/tiny
Yes
Many/Few – it depends
Pretty fast
Storage - Yes, Compute - No
Very
Less than you think 