Virtual Machine: Basic Instance Tier

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Virtual Machine: Basic Instance Tier

Basic tier of General Purpose Instances (A0 to A4 )

offers similar machine configurations as the Standard tier of instances that are offered today (Extra Small [A0] to Extra Large [A4] ). These instances will cost 27% less than the Standard instances in use today and do not include load balancing or auto-scaling.

These instances are well-suited for production

applications that do not require the Azure load-balancer (bring-your-own LB or single instance) , development workloads, test servers and memory-focused batch processing applications. The Basic instances become available for use starting April 3rd_.

Availability: GA

Azure _AWS Azure vs.

AWS

$/hr Today New % reduction

Linux

Standard A1

(Global) $ 0.060

Basic.A1

(US East) $ 0.044 27% m1.small (Virginia) $ 0.044 Match Basic A1

(US S. Central) $ 0.044 27% m1.small (Virginia) $ 0.044 Match Basic A1

(US West) $ 0.047 22% m1.small(California) $ 0.047 Match Basic A1 (EU North) $ 0.047 22% m1.small (Europe) $ 0.047 Match Basic.A1 (AP Southeast) $ 0.058 3% m1.small (Singapore) $ 0.058 Match Basic A1

(AP East) $ 0.058 3% N/A N/A N/A

Standard A1 (Japan West) $ 0.073 Basic A1 (Japan West) $ 0.061 16% m1.small (Japan) $ 0.061 Match Standard A1 (Japan East) $ 0.081 Basic A1

(Japan East) $ 0.069 15% N/A N/A N/A

Windows Standard A1 (Global) $ 0.090 Basic.A1 (US East) $ 0.074 18% m1.small (Virginia) $ 0.075 1% Lower Basic A1 (US West) $ 0.077 14% m1.small (California) $ 0.078 1% Lower Basic A1 (EU North) $ 0.075 17% m1.small (Europe) $ 0.075 Match Basic.A1 (AP Southeast) $ 0.087 3% m1.small (Singapore) $ 0.093 6% Lower Basic A1

(AP East) $ 0.087 3% N/A N/A N/A

Standard A1 (Japan West) $ 0.095 Basic A1 (Japan West) $ 0.088 7% m1.small (Japan) $ 0.088 Match Standard A1 (Japan East) $ 0.106 Basic A1

(Japan East) $ 0.095 10% N/A N/A N/A

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Compute-intensive A8 & A9 Virtual Machines

Compute-intensive virtual machines provide faster

processors, faster interconnect, more virtual cores for higher compute power, larger amounts of memory. These instances include an additional 40Gbit/s InfiniBand

network that provides remote direct memory access (RDMA) technology for maximum efficiency of parallel Message Passing Interface (MPI) applications. With these instances, customers are able to run compute and network intensive applications such as high performance cluster applications, applications using modeling, simulation and analysis, video encoding etc.

Pricing or other details

A8 instances will be charged for compute hours at $2.45/hour, and A9 instances at $4.90/hour.

Name

Virtual cores

RAM

Price per hour

A8

8 56 GB

$2.45

(~$1,823/month)

A9

16 112 GB

$4.90

(~$3,646/month)

Availability: GA Microsoft Confidential

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Internal Load balancing (ILB) is a feature which will allow load balancing between VMs that don’t have public facing endpoints. Internal Load balancing enables load balancing among VMs with private IP addresses. The internally load balanced endpoint will be accessible only with the

customer’s virtual and on-premise networks (in the case of VNET) or just within the cloud service (in the case of non-Vnet).

This feature becomes very useful in creating multi-tier applications where some of the tiers aren’t public facing but require load balancing functionality. Specifically, ILB enables new workloads such as internal LOB apps that require high availability to be run on Azure. It also enables scenarios such as ‛SQL Always ON’ and ‛RDP access‘ to be run on internal LB endpoints for added default security. For additional details visit the Documentationcenter

Internal Loadbalancing is available in the standard tier of Virtual Machines at no additional cost.

Availability: Preview

External

Load

Balancer

Web frontend tier Logic tier

Customer VNet

Internal

Load

Balancer

Customer on

premises

Back end

Front end

Internet

Internal Load Balancing

Microsoft Azure

Internal VIP

Public VIP

Connecting from a WAN (e.g. MPLS VPN) provided by network services providers

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Multi-Site and VNET to VNET Connectivity

Virtual Network – Multiple site to site connections allows customers to

create a Microsoft Azure Virtual Network that can connect to multiple customer datacenter sites. This is a scenario that is common when a customer may have two geographically dispersed locations that they want to be part of the same virtual network so that the communications are routed via the Microsoft backbone for higher performance and not via the internet.

VNET-to-VNET connectivity enables multiple virtual networks to be directly and securely connected with one another. Using this feature, you can connect VNETs that are running in different Azure regions and have traffic route via the Azure backbone. Called cross-region VNET-to-VNET, it enables scenarios that require presence in multiple regions, applications that are highly available, or the integration of VNETs for a larger network. You can also connect VNETs that are running within the same region (called in-region VNET-to-VNET) for providing additional isolation between applications that need to be connected. For additional details visit Documentationcenter.

Using more than one site-to-site connection comes at no additional cost. Customers only incur charges for VNET gateway uptime. The data traffic flowing between VNETs is charged at the same rate as egress traffic.

Connect to more

than 1 on-premises location Enable VNETs to

connect to each other

VNet1 US West

VNet2

East Asia _{US West}VNet1

VNet2 East Asia

Contoso NorthAm HQ

(10.0.0.0/16) Contoso NorthAm HQ (10.0.0.0/16) Contoso East Asia (10.3.0.0/16) Availability: GA

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Virtual Network Point-to-Site Connectivity

Virtual Network – Point to Site connections allows customers

to set up VPN connections between individual computers and a Microsoft Azure virtual network without the need for a VPN device. It is especially useful for developers who want to connect to a Microsoft Azure Virtual Network (and to the individual virtual machines within it) from either behind their corporate firewall or a remote location.

With point-to-site, they do not need their IT staff to perform any activities to enable it, and no VPN hardware needs to be

installed or configured. The built-in Windows VPN client can tunnel to the virtual network in Microsoft Azure using the Secure Sockets Tunneling Protocol (SSTP) and can automatically

traverse firewalls and proxies, while giving you complete security. For additional details visit Documentationcenter

There is no additional cost for point-to-site connections. Setting up a virtual network is free of charge. We charge only for the VPN gateway that connects to on-premises, based on the amount of time that connection is provisioned and available, at $0.05 per connection-hour (~$38/month).

On premises

Remote workers Behind corporate firewall computers

Virtual Network

Your datacenter

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Public Internet

ExpressRoute

Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute, enables customers to create private, high-throughput connections between Azure datacenters and their existing infrastructure, whether it’s on-premises or in a co-location environment, enabling and

simplifying hybrid environments. ExpressRoute connections do not go over the public Internet, and they offer more reliability, faster speeds, lower latencies and higher security than typical connections over the Internet. Customers enjoy a 99.9 percent SLA on ExpressRoute connection uptime. Plus, they have two new bandwidth tiers for the Exchange Provider scenario: 200 Mbps and 500 Mbps. For additional details visit Documentation

center.

Please see http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/pricing/details/expressroute/.

Currently AT&T and Equinix customers are able to use the ExpressRoute service at Silicon Valley, Washington, and London ExpressRoute locations

WAN

ExpressRoute location Customer site

Multiple customer sites

Availability: GA ( in select markets)

Microsoft Azure Microsoft Azure

Connecting at ExpressRoute Location (Exchange Provider facility)

Connecting from a WAN (e.g. MPLS VPN) provided by network services providers Microsoft Confidential

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PIP2

IP Reservation & Instance Level Public IPs

Today, every cloud service gets a VIP (Virtual IP address that’s public) which are assigned by Azure and customers don’t own these (i.e. they can change). All instances and VMs inside a cloud service only get internal IP addresses that are private. These VMs can only be accessed by mapping a port (endpoint) on the VIP to a port on the VM. Customers are not able to reserve VIPs nor are they able to get public IP addresses for individual instances or VMs.

IP reservation will allow customers to reserve public IP addresses and use them as VIPsThis enables scenarios where applications need to have static public IP addresses or where applications need to be updated by swapping the reserved IP addresses.

Instance-level Public IPs will allow customers to assign publically addressable IPs directly to VMs. While these are cannot be reserved at the moment, these will allow scenarios like running FTP services, monitoring VMs using their IPs etc.

For additional details visit Documentationcenter.

Customers can reserve up to 5 addresses per subscription free of charge and assign them to the Azure Cloud Services of their choice. If additional VIP reservations are needed, customers can also reserve another 5 (for a total of 10) addresses at additional cost.

During preview, customers can obtain two public IP addresses per subscription at no additional charge.

Internet

PIP1 Reserved VIP

1

2

To VIP VM1 VM2 VM1 VM2 Cloud service

VIP Cloud service Reserved VIP

LB LB

1. VIP Reservation: Customers will be able reserve public IP addresses for VIP 2. Instance-level Public IPs:

Individual instances and VMs can be assigned public IPs

Microsoft Azure Microsoft Azure

DIP1

DIP2

DIP1

DIP2

VIP: <port x>  DIP1:<port y> OR DIP2:<port y>

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Read Access Geo Redundant Storage

How do I use this service?

You can enable RA-GRS for your storage account. You can also do this through Windows Azure Service Management API. Once the account is enabled, you will get the endpoint name for your secondary endpoint. You can send read requests to that secondary endpoint to read your data. In addition, you can query the endpoint to find out the replication lag for your account.

For more information, please visit here

Pricing or other details For RA-GRS pricing, go here

Windows Azure Read-Access Geographically redundant storage (RA-GRS) allows for read access of your secondary storage replica, when the storage account on the primary location is unavailable. The new read access service is now available as an option with geo-replication for a storage account. The stored content is replicated to a secondary location, as before, and now you can have read access to the secondary location in case of a major disaster in the primary location. The secondary location is in the same region, but is hundreds of miles from the primary.

Secondary

Storage

Read-Access

Primary storage

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Microsoft Data center

Import Export

When should you consider using Import/Export?

Data Migration: Massive amounts of data that you want to quickly move information into the cloud.

Content Distribution: Quickly send data to your customers’ sites Data Recovery: You can quickly recover large amounts of data stored in Azure Blobs and have it delivered to your desired location.

For additional details visit Documentation center.

For Import/Export pricing, please go here

The Microsoft Azure Import/Export service enables customers to transfer large amounts of data to and from your storage account in Azure by using hard disk drives (HDD). With large data sets, this feature provides proven cost-effective migration of your information into Windows Azure Blob Storage.

Cost savings, productivity, and faster recovery time

Customer

Import Service

Export Service

Blob Storage Courier service Microsoft Confidential

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Azure Files

How do I use this service?

During public preview, you will go to the Azure Preview page, and sign up for this service through our BAS portal. For additional details, please visit here. Pricing or other details

The prices below include a 50% preview discount LRS: $0.040 per GB

GRS:$0.050 per GB RA-GRS: $0.065 per GB

What is the future?

This new service allows customers to connect to their storage account using a File Share (which uses the SMB protocol). There will also be a corresponding REST API to connect to the data. Files stored in the share are now available to applications across multiple Azure VMs via standard file system APIs.

On-prem, SMB offers high-performance connectivity to a highly available file share.

Files in Azure storage exposed as a File Share Local disks exposed as a File Share

SMB

Share data stored in Azure Files among Azure VMs via SMB i.e. by mapping the share in each instance

Hyper-V VMs VMs Local storage Azure Storage Blobs Tables Queues Files SMB REST API

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Web Sites – Updated Standard, New Basic SKU

A new SKU between Standard and Shared (Preview) and changes to Standard SKU

Web Sites – updated standard, new Basic SKU Web Site customers on Standard tier will receive more value at no additional cost. Standard will now include 5-SNI and 1-IP SSL certificates, 50GB of storage and all new advanced capabilities including: live production debugging with up to 5 connections, 6 scheduled Web Jobs, 1 Scheduled Backup per day and 2 Site Slots to use as testing or staging environments.

The new Basic tier provides support for Small, Medium and Large VM sizes and scales up to 3 VM instances. 10GB of storage is included and custom domains are supported. SSL certificates can be used by Basic tier web-sites but are charged at a per-SSL certificate price. More advanced features like AutoScale, Backups, Web Jobs and Staging Slots require the Standard Tier.

For more information on pricing and capabilities visit the Azure Web Sites & Pricing Details Page

Microsoft Azure Websites

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Java Support in Azure Web Sites

This feature provides an ability to host Java web applications on

Azure Web Sites. It intended to satisfy as many needs as possible within the security restrictions of Azure Web Sites. When enabled, this functionality sends all incoming site HTTP traffic to the Java HTTP listen port.

Portal enabled Java web site creationthat enables creating web sites with:

Java 1.7.0_51 32bit Tomcat 7.0.50 Jetty 9.1.0

Upload custom code or web containersto create Java web sites. What is available from the UI or the Application Gallery is not the limit of the feature. Users can even upload their own version of Java if desired. This feature has been tested with numerous applications including but not limited to Apache Tomcat, Jetty, Atlassian Jira, Magnolia, Liferay, and Hudson.

Java is available to all web tiers for no extra charge. While many Java applications run quickly in the Free tier, numerous

enterprise class Java applications should be run on dedicated instances which have the memory and other features that cater to such applications.

Web Site Worker

Front End

IIS sends all HTTP traffic to the

Java HTTP port when

Java is enabled.

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Web Jobs

Allows customers to deploy, execute and manage arbitrary code on Azure Web Sites. The code can run as a service, a cron job or manual.

Running modes – On-Demand, Scheduled, Continuous allows customers to customize how their code runs. A customer can execute a job manually on-demand by REST API, Azure SDK, or Portal. Jobs can be executed by the Azure Scheduler service once or on a repeating schedule. These running modes are referred to as triggered. Additionally, jobs can run continuously. Continuous jobs, are monitored by the platform and restarted if needed. The job will run continuously as long as the website is warm. A helper feature, called

AlwaysON will keep the website warm and thus, the job.

The Azure Web Sites platform is managed, fully featured, scalable and inherently parallelizable – and WebJobs inherits everything! All the deployment options, remote debugging capabilities, load balancing, auto-scaling,

everything. Jobs can run in one instance, or in all of them. All the building blocks are there to build something amazing! Or, small background jobs to perform maintenance for a website.

The WebJobs SDK can be used to author jobs that interface with Azure Queue and/or Azure Blob. Jobs authored with the SDK benefit from additional tooling for management, monitoring and debugging.

Available in all SKUs. Some helper features are only available in Standard SKU’s.

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Azure Redis Cache

Provides high throughput, low latency data access for your

application to build fast, scalable cloud applications.

Azure Redis Cache gives customers access to a secure, dedicated cache that is managed by Microsoft. A cache created using Redis Cache is accessible from any application within Microsoft Azure or even outside of Azure. Available in two tiers: Basic (250MB to 55GB) and Standard (1GB to 55GB and includes SLA and replication).

Redis Cache helps your application become more responsive even as user load increases and leverages the low latency, high-throughput capabilities of the Redis engine. This separate distributed cache layer allows your data tier to scale

independently for more efficient use of compute resources in your application layer.

Pricing is available on website. Preview pricing at 50% discount until GA.

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Traffic Manager Support for Azure Web Sites

Allows customers to leverage Traffic Manager for load balancing

or failover for their Azure Web Sites.

Traffic Manager allows customers to deploy an application in multiple data centers or regions and have High Availability with Failover support should the application in one data center stop responding. Customers can also leverage Traffic Manager to provide load balancing for applications deployed in multiple data centers. This can be either round robin or performance-based where the data center located closest to the user will handle the requests.

To use this feature customers deploy the application (including database if necessary) to all data centers desired, then create a new Traffic Manager profile in the Management Portal.

Available for sites running in Standard SKU

North

Europe

US West

North America

Europe

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Site Slots in Azure Web Sites

Customers are able to create site deployment slots for content

and configuration updates that can be swapped to production with no cold start and no down time.

Deployment slots enable Standard SKU customers to stage content and configuration updates or to build multiple versions of their site and validate changes before swapping the

deployment slot to production. The deployment slot swap workflow ensures the source deployment slot is warmed up before directing production traffic to it to avoid cold start impact for end users of the site.

Not available in Free, Shared or Basic SKUs

2 deployment slots per site available in Standard SKU

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Notification Hubs

Notification Hubs are a high-volume, low-latency mobile push notification engine that works with any existing app backend, whether hosted on-premises or in the cloud.

You can use Notification Hubs to engage users on iOS, Android, Windows and Kindle Fire devices. Notification Hubs supports: • Broadcasting to millions of users in minutes

• Segmented push notifications based on interest • Secure push notifications (push-to-pull)

• Push-to-sync scenarios

• Enhanced second-screen experience for media apps • More…

Pricing is available on website. Special preview pricing is available for customers looking to send individual push notifications only.

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Mobile Services Updates: .NET, AD, & Sync

Mobile Services provides a mobile backend-in-a-box for iOS, Android, Windows and Mac

apps. Whether developing natively or with a cross-platform framework like Xamarin, customers can easily authenticate users, store app data in the cloud or on-premises, send push notifications and add business logic.

We released three important updates to Mobile Services that make it easier than ever for businesses to build employee-facing applications and add a mobility layer to existing systems:

• .NET backend

• Write your mobile backend logic using ASP.NET Web API and Visual Studio, taking full advantage of Web API features, third-party Web API frameworks, and local and remote debugging

• Azure Active Directory Authentication

• Maximize the potential of your mobile enterprise applications without compromising on secure access

• Offline Sync

• Serve scenarios where users need to work with data while

disconnected from the network, and sync when connectivity becomes available again

Pricing or other details Pricing is available on website.

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Developers/

API consumers

Apps

Backend

web services

Hosted anywhere-Public cloud or On-premise ADMIN/ API Providers

API Management

Azure API Management enables organizations to publish APIs more reliably, more securely, and at scale. You can use API Management to engage with and drive API consumption among developers, partners and even internal teams while benefiting from the business and operational insights available in the admin portal. This service provides the tools that your organization needs to manage APIs--from provisioning user roles to creating usage plans and quotas, applying policies for transforming payloads, throttling, conducting analytics, monitoring and configuring alerts.

The core value is that organizations can now use APIs to reach more customers through new channels, accelerate API adoption, open and modernize enterprise systems, and convert analytics & reporting into results. All while protecting what matters--underlying web services and assets. For additional details, visit Azure Site.

API Management is currently in preview and is offered in two tiers: Developer and Standard. Prices below include a 50% preview discount.

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Integration – On Premise and In the Cloud

Feature Overview

Integrate your enterprise with the cloud BizTalk Server, our proven on-premises enterprise integration server, coordinates across mission-critical applications. Enterprise customers are encouraged to upgrade to BizTalk Server 2013 R2 Available beginning June 2014 - to reap the benefits from platform compatibility, performance improvements, and related features. Azure BizTalk Services is a simple, powerful, and extensible cloud-based integration service that provides Business-to-Business (B2B) and Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) capabilities for delivering cloud and hybrid integration solutions. The new Hybrid Connections service (in preview beginning May 2014) enables developers to quickly easily, and securely create connections between

Pricing

Licensing details for BizTalk Server are available online and through Microsoft account teams. There are several licensing alternatives to support customer and partner requirements.

Pricing for Azure BizTalk Services is cloud-based and includes 5 tiers from Hybrid Connections (free preview) to premium enterprise-class integration services.

Competition

Upgrading to BizTalk Server 2013 R2 on premises is kryptonite to our competitors and lights up our Hybrid value proposition – On Azure.

Oracle & IBM Enterprise middleware vendors with strong on-premises offerings and aggressive enterprise sales. No established cloud offerings.

MuleSoft/Amazon Offers open-source cloud alternative to established on-premises market leaders. No 1st_{party on-premises}

integration capability.

Integration solution ISVs Industry solutions built on competitive platforms or on old versions of BizTalk represent leveraged growth/upgrade opportunities.

Availability:

BizTalk Server 2013 “R2”: GA Azure BizTalk Services: GA Hybrid Connections:Preview

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Azure Active Directory Premium

Azure Active Directory Premium is Microsoft’s advanced identity and access management solution for the cloud. Current capabilities include:

1. synchronization with on-premises directories 2. single sign-on to thousands of SaaS applications 3. machine learning-based security and usage reports 4. company branding

5. self-service password reset 6. group management delegation 7. an Enterprise scale SLA

Upcoming capabilities currently under preview include:

1. A new version of the DirSync tool enabling the public preview of Self-Service Password Reset with write-back to on-premises directories. This version of the DirSync tool, also offers the option to use password hash sync as a backup of ADFS. If the ADFS is unavailable Authentication flow can be switched to Azure AD via password hash sync.

2. A public preview of a new synchronization engine, Azure AD Sync, which enables multi-forest and non-MS directories to be synchronized to Azure AD that eventually will replace DirSYnc and will be the only Sync tool of Azure AD with bi-directional sync capabilities

3. Multi-Factor Authentication IP whitelisting allowing companies to specify IP addresses from which MFA is not required.

4. Azure AD Cloud App Discovery feature that provides to IT departments visibility into all the cloud apps in use within their organization. Try it here

You can read more about all the new Azure AD features at the AD team blog

Identities everywhere, accessing everything

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Azure Remote App

Azure RemoteApp delivers remote applications from

Azure and helps IT to bring scale, agility and global access to their corporate applications.

With Azure RemoteApp, business applications run on Windows Server in the Azure cloud. Similar to

RemoteApp on-premises, employees can access their corporate applications from anywhere and on a variety of devices via Microsoft’s Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP). While appearing to run on a user’s local device, the applications are centralized on Azure’s reliable platform.

With Azure RemoteApp, IT can:

• Enable employees access to their corporate applications from anywhere, anytime and on a variety of devices

• Scale up or down to meet dynamic business needs without expensive infrastructure costs and

management complexity

• Centralize and protect corporate applications on Azure’s trusted platform.

Azure RemoteApp provides two different deployment choices: hybrid and cloud deployment. Customers can decide whether they would like to integrate the service to their on-premises infrastructure with hybrid

deployment or simply deploy a stand-alone cloud service.

Azure RemoteApp is available at no additional cost during preview period.

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SQL Database Service Tiers

SQL Database has re-architected the service tiers to provide a stronger

availability SLA, performance, disaster recovery SLAs as well as new features and functionality on a continuum.

Basic (Preview): Designed for applications with a light transactional workload. Performance objectives for Basic provide a predictable hourly transaction rate.

Standard (Preview): Standard is the go-to option for getting started with cloud-designed business applications. It offers mid-level performance and business continuity features. Performance objectives for Standard deliver predictable per minute transaction rates.

Premium (Preview): Designed for mission-critical databases, Premium offers the highest performance levels for SQL Database and access to advanced business continuity features. Performance objectives for Premium deliver predictable per second transaction rates.

Service Tiers

Basic

Standard

Premium

Preview Price

_{(~$2.50/month)}

$0.08/day

S1: $0.65/day

(~$20/month)

S2: $3.23/day

(~$100/month)

P1: $15/day

(~$465/month)

P2: $30/day

(~$930/month)

P3: $120/day

(~$3,720/month)

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SQL Database Premium – Active Geo-Replication

Mission-critical business continuity on your terms, via programmatic

APIs or Azure Management Portal.

Gain control over your disaster recovery process by creating active, readable, secondaries in any Azure region and choosing when to failover.

• Self-service activation in Premium

• Create up to 4 readable secondaries in any Azure region • Automatic data replication, asynchronous

• REST API, PowerShell or Azure Portal

• Recovery Time Objective (RTO)<1h, Recovery Point Objective (RPO)<5m, you choose when to failover

Pricing

Available in the Premium tier. Secondaries are available for the same performance level as the primary (eg. P1 to P1). Secondaries are billed at the same rate as the primary and incur daily database charges.

Up to

4 secondaries

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SQL Database Premium – Self-service Restore

Self-service and programmatic “oops recovery” of data deletion or

alteration.

Self-service Restore offers self-service control over data restoration from available backup data, putting the power to restore in the hands of customers in the case of a human or programmatic data deletion scenario.

• Auto backups, transactional logs every 5 min • Backups in Azure Storage and geo-replicated • Creates a side-by-side database copy, non-disruptive • Restore to any Azure region

• REST API, PowerShell or Azure Portal

• Backups retention policy in Premium: up to 35 days

Pricing

Available in the Premium tier. Self-service Restore is included at no extra charge. Once a customer initiates data recovery via Restore, a side-by-side database copy is created and incurs a daily database charge.

Geo- replicated

Restore from backup

SQL Database

Backups

sabcp01bl21

Azure Storage

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Azure Preview Portal

The new Azure Preview portal provides a fully integrated experience that will for the first time enable customers to develop, manage and analyze an application in one place, using the platform and tools of their choice. The new portal combines all the components of a cloud application into a single development and management experience. Some of the new components in the portal include the following:

Simplified resource management: Rather than managing standalone resources like Microsoft Azure Web Sites, Visual Studio Projects, SQL Databases or MySQL databases, with the new preview portal customers can create, manage and analyze their entire application as a single resource group in a rich, unified and

customizable experience, at scale. These resource management capabilities are also being released through PowerShell and cross-platform APIs and command line tools, in the Azure SDK, for robust automation and programmatic access.

Integrated billing: Providing insights into usage and billing, the integrated billing experience enables developers and IT pros to take control of their costs, see projected spend, and help them optimize their resources for maximum business advantage.

Gallery: A rich gallery of applications and services from Microsoft and the open source community, this integrated marketplace of over 130 free and paid services enables customers to leverage the power of the ecosystem to be more agile and productive while building powerful, modern applications.

Visual Studio Online: Several enhancements across Visual Studio Online are now available. This includes Team Projects, application life-cycle management for greater agility, the lightweight editor code-named “Monaco” for modifying and committing Web project code changes without leaving Microsoft Azure, and the Application Insights analytics solution, which collects telemetry data such as availability, performance and usage information to track an application’s health. Visual Studio integration enables developers to surface this data from new applications with a single click.

Details can be found here