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Microsoft Beta Release on Amazon Web Services(AWS) SDK for Windows Phone 7

Posted by Karthikeyan Anbarasan on February 7, 2012

Microsoft has recently announced the BETA release of Amazon Web Service (AWS) SDK for Windows Phone 7 Development. Microsoft has provided this SDK as an open source, which provides developers to quick integrate the Microsoft Windows Phone 7 Application development with the Amazon Web Service. This SDK provides support with the 3 main component of the AWS (Simple DB, S3 and SQS Service) at present which will get enhanced in the future releases as well.

Terry Wise, Director of Business Development for Amazon Web Services says about the Microsoft Release on AWS SDK for Windows Phone 7

“Our approach with AWS is to provide developers with choice and flexibility to build applications the way they want and give them unlimited storage, bandwidth and computing resources, while paying only for what they use. We welcome Windows Phone developers to the AWS community and look forward to providing customers with new ways to build and deploy Windows Phone applications”.

Jean Paoli, General Manager of Interoperability Strategy at Microsoft says about the Microsoft Release on AWS SDK for Windows Phone 7

“The release of the Windows Phone Toolkit for AWS Beta proves that Microsoft’s goal of building a Cloud-friendly phone is true across vendor boundaries. It literally takes minutes to create a Cloud-ready application in C# with this toolkit. We look forward to this toolkit eventually resulting in many more great apps in the rapidly growing Windows Phone marketplace.”

Make use of the below links to download the SDK and get the high level tutorial on how to use the SDK to get the best out. Some of the requirements to be considered for using this SDK are

 

Downloads:

Amazon Web Service (AWS) SDK for Windows Phone 7 Download

Tutorials:

Article on Getting Started with Installing and developing AWS SDK for Windows Phone 7

Getting Started with the AWS SDK for Windows Phone

AWS SDK for Windows Phone – S3 sample walkthrough

AWS SDK for Windows Phone – SQS sample walkthrough

AWS SDK for Windows Phone – SimpleDB sample walkthrough

Leveraging your iPhone development expertise to build Windows Phone 7 applications

Leveraging your Android development expertise to build Windows Phone applications

 

Happy Programming!!!

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Brief Comparison between Windows Azure and Amazon Web Service

Posted by Karthikeyan Anbarasan on February 6, 2012

Today I was discussing about my first Windows Azure project and came to know some interesting things and some comparison between the Windows Azure and Amazon Web Services. Each has its own advantages and disadvantage, to my followers who frequently ask me about what Azure is and when to use the Azure cloud this comparison chart will give some insight on the things to consider. Below Comparison chart will provide with easy comparison between the Windows Azure and Amazon EC2 Web Services cloud terminologies.

Microsoft Windows Azure
windows-azure-logo		 Amazon Web Services
aws
Free Trial https://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/pricing/free-trial/ http://aws.amazon.com/free/
Compute Instance ExtraSmall, Small, Medium, Large, Extra Large Micro, Small, Large, Extra Large
Compute VM VM Role Instance EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) Instance
Scaling Auto Scaling Blocks Auto Scaling
Identity Management AppFabric ACS (Access Control System) IAM
Messaging Service Bus SNS (Simple Notification Services)
Caching AppFabric Cache Elastic Cache
CND Azure CDN Cloud Front
Storage Blob Azure Blob S3
Storage Tables Azure Tables Simple DB
Storage Drive Azure Drives EBS (Elastic Block Storage)
Database SQL Azure MySQL, Oracle
Queues Azure Queues SQS (Simple Queue Services)
Connect Azure Connect VPC (Virtual Private Cloud)
Load Balancing Azure Load Balance Elastic Load Balance
Traffic Manager Azure Traffic Manager NA
Monitoring Tools AzureWatch(3rd Party) CloudWatch

This article is just a start on the comparison, we will see in depth on each of the topics on the go to get complete idea to proceed with the best options before start designing the cloud.

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SQL Azure Q4 2011 Release Update

Posted by Karthikeyan Anbarasan on December 14, 2011

Microsoft has recently released the SQL Azure Q4 2011 changes, later in October at PASS conference we heard about the SQL Azure Q4 release for 2011 and now the release is live with much enhanced features on scalability, Monitoring and Management of the data. Initially the maximum size of the SQL Azure database was 50GB which is now increased to 150GB and for the customer who use the maximum size, the cost remains the same. For the new 150GB maximum SQL Azure database usage Microsoft charge a very nomina fee of $499.95.

Some of the major enhancements of the SQL Azure Q4 2011 release are as follows

  • Size of the database increased from 50GB to 150GB
  • SQL Azure Federation
  • Metro Style SQL Azure Portal
  • Enhanced Import/Export DAC CTP
  • Enhanced User Control Collation
  • Enhanced Database Administration and Management

In our upcoming articles we can see the new features in details with nice examples and screen shot.

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Microsoft Team Blog on Private Cloud Implementations

Posted by Karthikeyan Anbarasan on September 30, 2011

Friends,

Quite few months i was working on Windows Azure and SQL Azure and documented my findings to my readers, yesterday after attending the Virtual Tech days on the Private Cloud topic it was quite interesting and i was looking into the stuffs to make an article on implementing Private Cloud for an enterprise solution.

When i was browsing through the site i came across the Microsoft Private Cloud Architecture Blog which was quite interesting and has many solutions for the real time private cloud implementations. Also we can see some great Microsoft guys out their finding with the complete implementations which will really help for the new learners to implement the private cloud.

Blog URL - http://blogs.technet.com/b/privatecloud/

Also we can get frequent updates from the Private Cloud team by the social media like facebook, twitter etc… using the below links

Twitter

Facebook

LinkedIn

Also we can get the complete details of the cloud from the technet using the below link

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/cloud

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