Failing Gracefully

What's on Azure right now?

RobbieT — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 15:10:00 GMT

If you speak to Microsoft, they'll give you a number of active accounts, but what are those accounts actually running? It could be a collection of Hello World ASP.NET sites, or perhaps small exciting web start-ups, or maybe even the beginnings of large corporate moves to the cloud! I guess what I really wanted to know was who is using Azure but that's a much harder question to answer, so we'll stick to what for now. My super awesome comrade Theo Spears attempted to answer this by trawling every...(read more)

The Running Cost of Azure - MSDN Offer

RobbieT — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 09:28:00 GMT

Richard recently blogged about getting the Red Gate Labs website onto Azure; it's been running awhile now and, as Richard makes sure the cogs are all turning, I've been trying to track the cost. We decided to launch on Windows Azure as both an exercise in using Azure and also getting to grips with hosting stuff in the cloud. If you have an MSDN subscription then you're eligible for an offer which looks pretty great: What the offer amounted to was a small compute instance, a bunch of storage...(read more)