Looking at the Windows Azure Websites portal, under the SCALE page, when SHARED option is selected, the instance count slider is visible. The slider does not move however.
I would like to use 2 instances of the shared website. I assume this should be possible since it is a paid service and I would simply be charged double. I don't need the full RESERVED option just yet.
Is this possible?
It should be possible according to the documentation and this intro video. There are also threads in the Azure Websites Forum discussing this topic.
The management portal help also documents the Shared Instance Count.
Keep in mind that websites is still in preview so availability may vary and some constraints are not yet final.
I just tried and was unable to scale newly created shared websites at two different locations (the slider just stuck at 1).
Update 2013-01-25: During some changes I just noticed that shared instance count for a north Europe site can now be changed up to 6.
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I'm going to make an solution offer to Azure Marketplace using this documents.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/marketplace/partner-center-portal/create-new-azure-apps-offer
I have already created the ARM templates. But inside my templates, they're referring to custom images in Share Images Gallery that I captured from Azure Portal. Do i need to create VMs offer for my Images separately?
If yes, Let say if I have 10 templates that are referring to 20 custom images in Share Images Gallery, then I need to create 20 VM offers for 20 custom images, don't I?
Sorry I very new on Azure Cloud.
Without knowing too much detail here is an answer based on some assumptions:
The Azure App is meant for public customers
The Azure App (ARM Template) is going to deploy Virtual Machine images
If that’s the right set of assumptions then: Using Shared Image Gallery would turn out to be a costly exercise because it would be someone’s Storage account. The preferred solution would be
Create a Azure Virtual Machine offer
Each offer can have many plans (selling motion)
Each plan can have up to 40 versions of an image
Keep the VM offer hidden, so users don’t buy that, instead publish an Azure App that manages the deployments
Another way to think about it is, if you have same product with many versions, you create a single plan
If you have same product with different tiers you can create different plans (and code your VM to query azure to find out what context (plan) its running in and behave appropriately)
You want to keep the same “offering” under the same “offer”. For example all Windows Server images are under the same offer (with plans for each major release)
If you are offering a banana in one image and a potato in the other, you want to put them in different offers.
I am new to Azure and started a new free trial account. As one of the first things to try, I decided to create a VM. As I followed steps in Azure portal, I was stuck when it came to 'Select Size', because all of them are greyed out; and per my understanding, the field is required.
I was using the default region (USEast), and I selected no AZ and 'Ubuntu 18.04 LTS' as the image the VM is based upon.
I googled this issue on the internet. And I have done the following to rectify the issue but no luck:
switched to use different PC with different IP (as some suggested)
"clear All filter' in Select Size window and specified VM size
selected different VM images
ensured there is a credit attached to my subscription (as some suggested)
ensured there is no resources created to avoid hit the quotas (as some suggested)
This is something very basic, and it should've worked out-of-the-box. I am disappointed with the experience. But I want to give it the benefit of doubt and will continue to try out Azure if this issue is resolved. Maybe something very simple that I might've missed on my side.
Thank you so much for the help in advance.
Due to COVID-19 most of the enterprise user working from home and the usage of Azure and Microsoft service has increased a lot. Microsoft says that there has been a colossal 775 percent increase in usage of its cloud services.
All that Azure usage appears to have led to users in many regions "observing deployments for some compute resource types in these regions drop below our typical 99.99 per cent success rates". Which goes a long way towards explaining the inability to create resources as The Register revealed last week.
Concurrently, we monitor support requests and, if needed, encourage customers to consider alternative regions or alternative resource types, depending on their timeline and requirements.
Try to change your deployment region.
Most of the VM's we are unable to create. This is due to heavy toll on the resources.
You can read more here : https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/our-commitment-to-customers-and-microsoft-cloud-services-continuity/
For time being seems like we have to opt for some other size.
Ok Ive been trying to find a definitive answer for this but it keeps getting me more confused trying to differentiate between people talking about VMs and Website plans, and different tier names being introduced, and the whole "Website Hosting Plan" where all your sites are now tied together in the plan.
Pretty much all I want to know is if I started an Azure account and made three free websites. Then I go to the Scale tab and upgrade it to Shared, it will say "all the websites in your plan will be affected" and change all three sites to Shared. Does this apply the ~$9.90 Shared price to each of the three sites (~$30) or does that ~$9.90 cover all the sites in the that shared hosting plan (I believe 100 is the max).
In Shared mode, you pay for each Web Site. In Standard mode, you pay for the VM that can host unlimited Web Sites (limit was 500 before).
So if you do the math, starting at 8 Web sites, it makes sense to go to Standard. It's even cheaper with the new Basic tier.
For the same reasons the "Standard" mode isolates Azure Web Sites from specific subscriptions from each other, a single account holder (company) might want to isolate Azure Web Sites within a single subscription from each other. Is it possible?
Note: We only have a single subscription to test things out, so we assume that web sites from different subscriptions are isolated, but it might be a bad assumption.
The Web Hosting Plans feature in Azure Web Site can help with isolating sites in "Standard" mode between each other. For example you can create two (or more) web hosting plans, put different sites in them and then scale those web hosting plans to "Standard". Azure will allocate different sets of VM's to each Web Hosting Plan and sites will be isolated from each other.
More information here:
http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/azure-web-sites-web-hosting-plans-in-depth-overview/
It sounds like the suggestion "it should be possible to scale websites individually, even when they are in same region" is spot on regarding this issue. The idea is "under review" as of Dec 23, 2013, so the current answer is that no, it isn't possible yet.
Update: Closed (WONTFIX) as of March 20, 2014, though apparently based on a misunderstanding or simply incorrect information (see comment on the suggestion thread). There's still a chance they might reopen when they realize this (or when the issue pops up again in the future), though I wouldn't rely on this assumption.
Thanks BrentDaCodeMonkey for clarifying that sites are grouped to run on sets of instances within regions / data centers as opposed to just by subscription. I guess a "work-around" would be to isolate sites in different data centers, though it's likely that it may be more cumbersome than anything in many cases.
Update: Feature announced on April 4, 2014.
I'm considering to join the Windows Azure Platform Introductory Special, but I'm a little bit afraid of losing money with it. I don't wanna develop any fancy large scale application, I want to join just to learn Azure and do my experiments, what should I be afraid of?
In the transference, it says: "Data Transfers (per region)", what does that mean?
Can I put limits to stop the app if it goes over this plan in order to avoid get charged?
Can it be "pre pay" instead "bill pay"?
Would it be enough for a blog?
Any experiencie so far?
Kind regards.
As ligget pointed out, Azure isn't cost affect as a host for an application that can be easily deployed to a traditional shared hosting provider. Azure's target market are those that want dedicated resources without the need to micro-manage the infrasture and the capability to easily scale up/down based on demand.
That said, here's the answers to the questions you posted:
Data Transfers are based on bandwidth in and out of the hosting data center. bandwidth for communication occuring within components (SQL Azure, Windows Azure, Azure Storage, etc...) in the same datacenter are not billable.
Your usage is not currently capped when the free quotas are used up. However, you will recieved warning emails when those items approach their usage threadsholds.
There is the option to pay your subscription using a PO, but the minimum threshold for most of these operations is $500/month. So as a hobbyist, its unlikely you're wanting that route.
The introductory special does not provide enough resources for hosting a 24x7 personal blog. That level includes only 25hrs of compute resources. Each hour a single instance of your application is deployed will count against this, even if the application received no traffic. Think of it like renting office space. You still pay rent on the office even if there are no customers there.
All this said, there's still much to be learned with the introductory special. The azure development tools allows you to work with Windows Azure and Azure storage locally and get a feel for how they work. The introductory special then lets you deploy those solutions so you can see what works and what doesn't (not everything that works locally works hosted).
I would recommend you host your blog somewhere else - it's a waste of resources running it on Azure and you'll find much cheaper options. A recently introduced extra small instance would be a better choice in this case, but AFAIK it is charged separately as of now, e.g. even when you have an MSDN subscription those extra small instance hours do not count towards free Azure hours that come with the subscription.
There is no pre-pay option I know of and it's not possible to stop the app automatically. It'll be running until the deployment is deleted (beware! even if suspended/stopped the deployment will continue to accrue charges). I believe you will be sent a notification shortly before reaching your free hours threshold.
Be aware that when launching more than 1 instance you are charged for every hour of every instance combined. This can happen for example when you have more than one role in your Azure project (1 web role + 1 worker role - a separate instance will be started for each role).
Data trasfer means your entire data trasfer: blobs/Table storage/queues (transfers between your hosted service and storage account inside the same data center are free) + whatever data is transfered in/out of your hosted application, e.g. when somebody visits your pages. When you create storage accounts and hosted services in Azure you will specify a region that will be hosting your account/app - hosting in Asia is slightly more expensive than in Europe/U.S.
Your best bet would be to contact Microsoft with these questions.