There are plenty of limitations, though, including no support for Oracle Database clustering.
Scott Guthrie encouraged developers at the Visual Studio Live! conference this morning to take advantage of their Windows Azure credits through their Microsoft Developer Network subscriptions.
- By Scott Bekker
- 08/20/2013
Other additions include SQL Server AlwaysOn failover.
The SDK also includes a virtual machine with a built-in VS 2013 instance.
Updates to the Amazon .NET SDK target Windows workloads.
- By Katrina Carrasco
- 07/26/2013
Microsoft's real value proposition is that it has a super-franchise made up of smaller constituent franchises.
- By Andrew J. Brust
- 07/07/2013
Visual Studio 2013 and .NET Framework 4.5.1 are hits, as is the Bing development platform.
- By John K. Waters
- 06/28/2013
The company says more than half of the Fortune 500 is on Azure.
- By John K. Waters
- 06/28/2013
Windows Azure and Visual Studio 2013 take center stage on the second day of Microsoft's flagship developer conference.
- By Michael Desmond
- 06/27/2013
MongoDB is a popular choice for apps that use a Windows Azure back end.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 06/24/2013
Knowing where you are -- and where you want to go -- are the keys to using the matrix.
Microsoft also announces that every Azure customer gets a free 20MB database to use for a year with Web Sites and Mobile Services.
MSDN subscribers get a host of new benefits as well, including credit toward Azure time, making cloud-based development free in some cases.
Windows Azure may have been slow out of the gate, but Microsoft's efforts to make it more of an Infrastructure as a Service platform is starting to pay off.
- By Andrew J. Brust
- 05/30/2013
New release brings simplified cloud back-end capabilities.
- By Katrina Carrasco
- 05/28/2013
The Hortonworks Data Platform for Windows works with Microsoft's Windows Azure HDInsight Service.
Microsoft exec also says Visual Studio 2012 has been downloaded more than 4 million times since its release.
- By John K. Waters
- 05/10/2013
C#, Azure and JavaScript skills also make the Top-10 Most Wanted list.
- By John K. Waters
- 05/03/2013
The Open Technologies Group has open sourced ASP.NET, MVC 4, and the Entity Framework, among other technologies.
- By John K. Waters
- 05/01/2013
The growing use of cloud back-end services for mobile apps is creating a new security risk in the mobile development space.
- By Katrina Carrasco
- 04/30/2013