Cloud Computing Resources

[Pete]

Please post any resource recommendations here for all of us to share.

Pete Klein recommended checking out -

Google Cloud Computing Disucssion. You can also find the discussion on the right nav of our homepage.

[David Pallmann]

The #1 resource is Azure.com. This is Microsoft's portal for the platform. From Azure.com, you can:

- SIgn up for an Azure.account
- Maintain your account
- Download the Software Development Kits (SDKs) that allow you to write code for the platform
- Create and configure projects
- Deploy applications and updates to projects
- Swap between Staging and Production deployments
- Get to resources, including online documentation, downloads, developer centers, forums

[David Pallmann]

Blogs by Azure enthusiasts are very helpful resources.

The site http://www.AzureFeeds.com aggregates Azure blogs from many people under a single feed that you can subscribe to.

[David Pallmann]

Microsoft maintains several Azure forums at http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/category/azure/. This is your best place to go with a technical question or problem. Both Microsoft and community members are very responsible in helping with problems.

[Pieter]

http://www.codeplex.com/azureissuetracker
This sample demonstrates a real-world SaaS architecture and scenario using the Azure Services Platform to perform federation and multi-tenancy. Technologies used include the Access Control service (part of .NET Services) as well as SQL Data Services (part of SQL Services).

[David Pallmann]

http://www.AzureDesignPatterns.com is a web site dedicated to Azure cloud computing design patterns.