A tour on Microsoft Cloud Service, Azure
A brief history Microsoft Azure was first announced on October 28, 2008. A cloud computing operating system which was targeted at Businesses and Developers without additional coding. The original name Windows Azure was a deliberate response in competition to the Amazon EC2 and Google App Engine. Windows Azure was built as an extension of Windows NT which was essentially the beginning of Microsoft Cloud Platform as a Service (PaaS). The Windows Azure was an internal project which went by the code name “ Project Red Dog ” The First-Generation Services The First Era of Windows Azure started with a limited number of services that formed the forte of the cloud service. The major service which it was launched enabled developers to run the ASP.NET web applications and APIs, the other piece designed along with the Azure service was running long process with no User Interface (UI) for worker roles. After a year Windows Azure was released, and the announcement of the SQL Azure relational data