Updated: July 10, 2020 (December 13, 2010)
Analyst ReportAzure Updated, Futures Announced
New features and enhancements to the Microsoft-hosted Windows Azure platform were announced at the Professional Developers Conference (PDC) in Oct. 2010. Several of the updates are available now, others will arrive at different times over the next year, and some will become available as free Community Technology Previews (CTPs) or fee-based betas before their final releases. The Azure platform, which became commercially available in Feb. 2010 and now hosts about 20,000 customer applications, is updated on an ongoing basis to address customer requests and competitive offerings and to make it easier to move on-premises applications to Azure.
Windows Azure Gets Most of the Updates
Although SQL Azure, AppFabric, and other Azure components will be updated, Windows Azure will receive most of the additions. Several of the additions are enabled by the Windows Azure Tools for Visual Studio 1.3, which includes Windows Azure SDK 1.3. (For the updates that haven’t arrived yet, see the chart “Azure Futures Roadmap“.)
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