Microsoft Windows Azure

Windows Azure is a Microsoft cloud computing platform used to build, host and scale web applications through Microsoft data centers.The platform consists of various on-demand services hosted in Microsoft data centers and commoditized through three product brands: Windows Azure (an operating system providing scalable compute and storage facilities), SQL Azure (a cloud-based, scale-out version of SQL Server), and Windows Azure AppFabric (a collection of services supporting applications both in the cloud and on premise).

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	Microsoft Windows Azure
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Website	http://www.windowsazure.com
Development Status	Production
Features
Technologies supported	C#, Java, PHP, Ruby
Open source	No
Cloud hosting
Content Delivery Network (CDN)	Yes
Repositories
Databases
Plugins
API	Yes REST API and a managed API for working with the storage services
Centralized Dashboard and Console
Social Networks
Twitter
Facebook
Blog
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Pricing	Windows Azure Storage utilization is calculated based on your average usage during a billing period of blob, table, queue, and Windows Azure Drive storage. For example, if you consistently utilized 10GB of storage for the first half of the month and none for the second half of the month, you would be billed for your average usage of 5GB of storage.
Last update	2013-02-13 21:26:43