Analyzing the PaaS Landscape – Microsoft Windows Azure

by Jani on February 15, 2012

Having covered Cloud Foundry, Force.com, Google App Engine and Red Hat OpenShift, we now take a look at Microsoft’s PaaS offering, Windows Azure.

Microsoft Windows Azure Platform is a Platform as a Service offering from Microsoft. It was announced in 2008 and became available in 2010. Since then Microsoft has been constantly improving the platform by adding new features.

Though Windows Azure Platform is designed for the developers building applications on the Microsoft platform, developers building applications on Java and PHP environments can also leverage this. Microsoft is investing in the right set of tools and plug-ins for Eclipse and other popular developer environments.

For a detailed analysis of the current PaaS landscape, Click here for the Slide Deck from the Webinar Navigating the PaaS Maze in the Cloud.

Let me first explain each of the components of Windows Azure Platform and then walk you through the scenarios for deploying applications on this platform.

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