In late October, Microsoft announced their entry into the cloud computing space with Azure. Since then I’ve been playing around with it, and I tend to think that the majority of the resources have been spent on the Microsoft side of things – the documentation and client tooling are practically non-existent.
One question I continue to hear is, ‘What exactly is Azure?’. This is difficult to answer since it is actually many different components, each of which require their own description. To help shed some light on these services, Microsoft has released four white papers about the services under the ‘.NET Services’ umbrella. These are very well put together, and I think will help clarify many of the ‘what is it?’ questions.
Download the white papers here.
