Windows Azure Web Sites: Quick-and-Easy Hosting as a Service

摘要

Windows Azure Web Sites (WAWS) is a compelling feature of the Microsoft cloud platform. WAWS is a service built on top of the Windows Azure Platform as a Service (PaaS) framework that simplifies the deployment, management and scalability tasks associated with hosting cloud applications. If this makes you think WAWS is just another glorified hosting solution, think again. What's different is the level of scalability and high availability it provides, backed by multiple datacenters around the world and the failover mechanisms inherited from the PaaS components. Moreover, the Windows Azure platform offers many additional features and capabilities beyond WAWS, allowing developers to enhance their applications as their needs grow, including support for big data, identity, mobile services and more.