Introducing Microsoft Azure and SQL Azure

1. Overview of Azure

Azure is the name of Microsoft’s cloud services, which developers can use to deliver applications at scale
for various workloads and devices. Microsoft Azure provides a runtime framework for applications that
currently supports .NET 3.5 and .NET 4.0, as well as load balancers, operating systems, servers, storage,
and networking, leaving you free to build the application.
Microsoft Azure provides three services: Windows Azure, SQL Azure, and Windows Azure
AppFabric.

Windows Azure AppFabric is more of an Enterprise solution that provides Enterprise Service Bus
patterns typically popular in the business process application.

2. Creating a Cloud Database