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Are you looking for developing, packaging, and deploying powerful applications and services to the cloud? Is creating highly-available, infinitely-scalable applications and APIs a challenge for you?

Microsoft Azure Websites and Virtual Machines enable web applications on Azure. Upload your application and Azure handles the deployment details – from provisioning and load balancing to health monitoring for continuous availability.

Introduction to Microsoft Azure Cloud Services

How to Build and Deploy Cloud Services

How to Build and Deploy Cloud Services

Making a choice

• Administrative access to your application’s VMs
• Offers both web roles and worker roles
• Provides separate staging and production environments
• Use networking technologies such as Azure Virtual Network and Azure Connect to hook on-premises computers
• Use Remote Desktop to connect directly to an application’s VMs

Considerations while Scaling an Application

• Add Virtual Machines that you create to an availability set to scale an application that uses them
• Scaling is affected by core usage. Larger role instances or Virtual Machines use more cores
• Create a queue and associate it with a role or availability set before you can scale an application based on a message threshold
• Scaling resources that are linked to your cloud service
• Ensure two or more role instances or Virtual Machines

Managing Cloud Services

• Cloud Service Configuration: Settings, certificates and Operating System Settings
• Upload Cloud Service configuration manually
• Configure Remote Access

Update Cloud Services

• Update a cloud service role or deployment
• Swap deployments to promote a staged deployment to production
• Link a resource to a cloud service
• Delete deployments and a cloud service