{"id":1271,"date":"2010-04-08T01:40:34","date_gmt":"2010-04-08T08:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jorgep.com\/blog\/?p=1271"},"modified":"2022-10-03T13:27:20","modified_gmt":"2022-10-03T20:27:20","slug":"windows-azure-simple-explanation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jorgep.com\/blog\/windows-azure-simple-explanation\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows Azure &#8211; Simple Explanation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div ca=\"true\" cat=\"\" class=\"bvEntry\" cns=\"cns!197E2E435D299F7F!121\" id=\"entrycns!197E2E435D299F7F!121\">\n<div id=\"LastMDatecns!197E2E435D299F7F!121\">\nWe are often asked what is Windows Azure, and how does it help the business. <\/div>\n<div class=\"bvMsg\" id=\"msgcns!197E2E435D299F7F!121\">\n<div>\nExplaining what an application hosting platform is, and how it can help it is  not as simple as it sounds\u2026 Microsoft Azure is an application hosting  environment rather than a server-based like Amazon\u2019s AWS environment. <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Azure is a service that allows you to upload an application and run it.  <\/li>\n<li>Amazon Elastic Computing Cloud (EC2)  is a service that allows you to rent  one or more virtual machines running Linux\/Windows or some other operating  system .  <\/li>\n<li>Both services charge based on usage parameters like CPU usage, number of  requests, data transferred, and other variables. (consider and understand these  carefully)  <\/li>\n<li>Both services provide &#8220;behind the scene\u201d reliability, scalability and  capacity, so you do not have to worry about it <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In doing some of the research, I came across a nice presentation  made by  Steve Marx, which I had  to share with all.<\/p>\n<div style=\"display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; width: 425px;\">\n<div>\n<span style=\"display: block; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"display: none;\"> <\/span><embed allownetworking=\"internal\" allowscriptaccess=\"never\" height=\"350\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/go\/getflashplayer\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/poDRw_Xi3Aw&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;showsearch=0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" wmode=\"opaque\"><\/embed>   <\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>I went to Steve\u2019s blog:  <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.smarx.com\/\"><u><span style=\"color: #105cb6;\">http:\/\/blog.smarx.com<\/span><\/u><\/a>   and found it to be a wealth  of very relevant information on the Azure topic.   Thanks Steve! \u2013 We have earmarked your blog as one to follow.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are often asked what is Windows Azure, and how does it help the business. Explaining what an application hosting platform is, and how it can help it is not as simple as it sounds\u2026 Microsoft Azure is an application hosting environment rather than a server-based like Amazon\u2019s AWS environment. 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