Microsoft to add alerts to Windows Azure

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Microsoft to add autoscaling, alerts to Windows Azure

Summary: Microsoft is readying previews of two new features for its Windows Azure public-cloud platform: App autoscaling and alerts.

Tomorrow, June 27 — in Day 2 of its Build 2013 developer conference — Microsoft is on tap to talk about Windows Azure.


I'm betting two of the topics on the docket will be the additions of autoscaling and alert notifications to Microsoft's public cloud platform. I'm basing this bet on a couple of new Azure blog posts that went live for a bit and were subsequently pulled.
Here's some what I'm expecting Scott Guthrie to announce about these new features during the keynote.
On the autoscaling front, Microsoft is building automatic autoscaling into Windows Azure for cloud services, virtual machines and Azure Web sites. This capability will allow Azure to scale users' apps dynamically on their behalf, no manual intervention required.
The autoscaling will regularly adjust the number of instances in response to the load in a user's application. Initially, two different load metrics will be supported: CPU percentage and storage queue depth (for cloud services and VMs only).Before this feature addition, users had to manually set the scale of their apps or use additional tooling to scale their apps.
Autoscale is in preview and will be free for a limited time, until it is made generally available.These alerts provide the ability for users to be notified of active or impending issues within their apps. Users can create alert rules so that an alert is created when a condition defined in a rule is violated. Users also can select the option to send an email notification to the service administrator and co-administrators.
During the preview, each subscription will be limited to 10 alert rules.


Microsoft makes Azure Mobile Services, Web Sites generally available

Summary: Microsoft is moving more of its Windows Azure services from preview to general availability. The latest: Azure Mobile Services and Azure Web Sites.

Microsoft is continuing to move more of its "preview" versions of its Windows Azure services to "general availability" (GA). The latest two to get the GA nod are Azure Mobile Services and Azure Web Sites.

Microsoft used its June 27 Day 2 keynote at the Microsoft Build 2013 developer conference to make the announcements.

Windows Azure Mobile services allow developers building Windows, Windows Phone, iOS and Android apps to store data in the Azure cloud, authenticate users and send push notifications. Microsoft announced Azure Mobile Services preview in August 2012 and added Android support a few months ago.
Since announcing the preview, there have been 20,000 apps written using Azure Mobile Services, according to Microsoft officials.Microsoft also announced general availability of Windows Azure Web Sites during the Build 2013 keynote on June 27.
Windows Azure Web Sites allows developers to provision Web applications and sites on Windows Azure. Developers can do this via the Azure Management Portal, their integrated development environment (IDE) of choice, from scripts using PowerShell or CLI tools running on any operating system. Users can scal up and out thanks to Azure.
Microsoft made the initial Azure Web Sites preview available in June 2012.

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