Windows azure supports IAAs, virtual machines, virtual networks, and hourly Billing

Microsoft released an infrastructure as a service (IAAS) that supports windows azure and a new VM image template and other feature enhancements. Microsoft also reduced their prices by 21% to 33% based on the size of Windows azure virtual machines (IAAS) and cloud service (PAAs) virtual machines and the number of CPU cores.

The Windows azure Management Portal contains a large number of built-in Windows and Linux templates. You can create windows azure virtual machines based on these templates. You can also upload and run a custom vhd image.

When writing this news, microsoft provides virtual machine templates for Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2008 R2, SQL Server 2012, BizTalk Server 2013, Sharepoint Server 2013, Ubuntu, centos, and SuSE Linux distributed systems.

"Windows azure uses the hyper-V virtualization service, which is the same as the built-in virtualization service of Windows Server 2012, this means that you can create and use a set of common vhd in your local and cloud environments, "says Scott guthurie of Microsoft.

To create a virtual machine using the Windows azure Management Portal, You need to select the new | Virtual Machine | quick create option. Then, you can use remote powershell, ssh, or terminal server to manage and monitor virtual machines. Additionally, you can append and use a data disk of up to 1 TB for storage.

The built-in Server Load balancer in Windows azure virtual machines allows users to distribute traffic sent to a single IP Address/port to multiple virtual machine instances, which fundamentally provides better fault tolerance.

In addition to virtual machines, Microsoft also released a Windows azure virtual network that allows users to create a virtual private network that uses permanent private IP addresses (10.x, 172. X, or 192.x. In addition, you can direct your VM to a local DNS server or to a DNS server running on Windows azure in the same virtual network as the VM, in addition, you can establish a cross-local connection through the Internet Protocol Secure (IPSec) VPN between websites. In addition, users can create virtual machines and cloud services in a single virtual network, and use private address space for communication. To create a new virtual network, select new | networks | Virtual Network | quick create in the Management Portal. Although there is no charge for creating a virtual network, If you enable the VPN gateway, you still need to pay for the hourly usage time and bandwidth.

Microsoft has introduced an hourly billing mechanism for SQL Server and BizTalk Server Virtual Machine images, which allows users to pay only for the exact time they use these images, rather than for upfront costs.

Microsoft also plans to release a Sharepoint deployment wizard and powershell script, which makes it easier for users to use SharePoint on Windows azure and can directly use powershell to manage SharePoint 2013.

Microsoft also announced that they introduced 4-core x 28 gb ram and 8-core x 56 gb ram virtual machines, allowing users to run larger workloads using Windows azure.

Finally, Windows azure provides the ability to allow users to customize account logon names when creating Virtual Machine images. In addition, the OS disk size has increased to 127 GB, and remote powershell is enabled by default for all Windows Server OS images, including SQL Server, BizTalk Server, and Sharepoint.

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Windows azure supports IAAs, virtual machines, virtual networks, and hourly billing.