Overall Satisfaction with Windows Azure
We use Windows Azure for several customer facing websites, as well as our internal users.
- Load Balancing
- Scaling up or down depending on visitor traffic to web based system
- Ease of deployment to the Azure Cloud
- Quite a few hours of down times this past month (8 hours of down time)
- SSL Support still needs work
- Backup and restore of Azure SQL needs to be improved on
- Reduces the need to manage hardware
- Less frequent backups needed
Amazon Elastic Cloud
Using Windows Azure
3 - We maintain our windows azure servers by utilizing a network administrator, a database administrator and a custom application developer or deployment specialist.You could however potentially only have a single person be in charge of Windows Azure as the administrative dashboard is quite intuitive and makes most deployment and maintenance tasks as easy as 1,2,3!