Windows Azure Platform

Getting Started
This page is designed to help you learn about the Windows Azure platform. Follow the introductory videos to get quickly up-to-speed, then follow the links to interviews with product team members, developer how-tos, news, aggregated resources and more.

What is the Windows Azure platform?
The Windows Azure platform is an internet-scale cloud services platform hosted in Microsoft data centers. It provides an operating system, Windows Azure, and developer services, SQL Azure and .NET Services, that can be used in tandem or separately.

Windows Azure
Watch these short videos for an introduction to Windows Azure. We cover the basic principles, Windows Azure storage and how to deploy an application to Windows Azure. 

                                                                                
What is Windows Azure?                         Windows Azure Storage Overview        Deploying Applications on Windows Azure

.NET Services
Watch this short video for an introduction to .NET Services.


What are .NET Services?

Business Model

                                        
Business Model                                         Billing System


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