There are many Azure projects on codeplex and scattered over MSDN. Some of them are so old that they use the code-based version of the storage client, and not the compiled version.
Which projects are current and relevant, and which are outdated?
Getting Started with Azure
http://blog.syntaxc4.net/post/2010/12/30/Essential-Resources-for-Getting-Started-with-Windows-Azure.aspx
Current and by MSFT:
MSDN Samples
Part 1 Demonstrates COMET via Silverlight and WCF among other samples
Part 2 Includes HTTP compression sample
How to... In Azure
Some entries contain code samples
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/gg432998.aspx
FabrikamShipping
Includes AD FS Federation, Facebook integration, and provisioning automation
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vbertocci/archive/2011/03/14/fun-with-fabrikamshipping-saas-ii-creating-an-enterprise-edition-instance.aspx
Azure SDK
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=7a1089b6-4050-4307-86c4-9dadaa5ed018
Azure Training Kit
Located at C:\WAPTK\Default.htm
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=413E88F8-5966-4A83-B309-53B7B77EDF78
Patterns and Practices
Cloud Guidance (Greenfield and Brownfield scenarios)
Tailspin Toys Hands On Lab
Note there is a part 1 and part 2 to this
http://wag.codeplex.com/
Developing applications for the cloud
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff966499.aspx
All In One Samples
Has some Azure samples for oData and more. See both the 2008 and 2010 samples since each has different code.
http://1code.codeplex.com/
WCF Azure Samples
(looks up to date, but is located on "archive.msdn" which is disconcerting )
http://archive.msdn.microsoft.com/wcfazure
http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/windowsazure/
3rd Party up to date
Encryption for Azure Table
Easily and transparently encrypt Table data
http://azuretableencrypt.codeplex.com/
Lokad.Cloud
An ORM for the cloud aka O/C mapper
http://code.google.com/p/lokad-cloud/
Facebook
http://facebooksdk.codeplex.com/
http://azuretoolkit.codeplex.com/
Azure Storage
http://azurestorageexplorer.codeplex.com/ (Oct of '10)
Azure Accelerators
http://azureaccelerators.codeplex.com/
Aside from makerofthings7's thorough answer, let me add one more:
David Pallman's 'Azure Storage Samples' - these are complete samples with two implementations each: .NET Storage Client Library and REST. This was published in February, 2011.
A project that probably contain all the providers you will ever need; Membership, Role, Session, and Profile providers. Stores in the Azure Table Storage and uses the Azure Queue http://azureproviders.codeplex.com
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Since ADC is provided by MS as SaaS to customers, is MS taking backups of the dataset and business glossary? If yes, how often and how can a customer get access to the backups for recovery purposes?
Unfortunately, there is no explicit backup/restore feature available for catalogs.
I would suggest you to vote up an idea submitted by another Azure customer.
https://feedback.azure.com/forums/906052-data-catalog/suggestions/33125845-azure-data-catalog-backup-feature
All of the feedback you share in these forums will be monitored and reviewed by the Microsoft engineering teams responsible for building Azure.
The closest way to achieve this with current functionality is to use the Azure Data Catalog REST API to extract all assets and persist them locally (and re import them manually later).
There is a sample application available that demonstrates this technique: Data Catalog Import/Export sample tool.
New to Azure and would like to know what the difference between Azure API Management and Logic Apps is.
Some pros and cons would be nice. Also what the costing for each of these is like.
Thanks
Seems you want to know about Azure API Management and Azure Logic Apps
Well let me help you what that actually are...
Azure API Management
Azure API Management allows organizations to publish APIs more securely, reliably, and at scale. Use API Management to drive API consumption among internal teams, partners, and developers while benefiting from business and log analytics available in the admin portal
Pros are
Consistent and modern API gateways for existing back-end services
Verifies API keys, JWT tokens, certificates, and other credentials
Help you to publish APIs to external, partner, and internal
developers to unlock the potential of their data and services
High availability Responds to requests to perform operations at
least 99.9% of the time.
Analytics, metrics and many more
For further details you could have a look on official docs
Pricing
There are different categories of pricing available based on type and uses. See the below screen shot:
You even can read more details about pricing here
Logic Apps:
Azure Logic Apps is a cloud service that helps you schedule, automate, and orchestrate tasks, business processes, and workflows when you need to integrate apps, data, systems, and services across enterprises or organizations. Logic Apps simplifies how you design and build scalable solutions for app integration, data integration, system integration
Pros are
Maximum automation with hassle free service
Process and route orders across on-premises systems and cloud
services
Can move uploaded files from an SFTP or FTP server to Azure Storage
Help you connect legacy, modern, and cutting-edge systems more
easily and quickly by providing prebuilt APIs as Microsoft-managed
connectors
Pricing
Usually two categories of pricing you may have Consumption pricing model which depends on how much you consume and have to pay as per your consumption.
another one Fixed pricing model. See the screen shot:
You can have a look more details on official docs
Hope this would help you.
Since Azure Functions host are dynamically added and removed based on the number of incoming events under "Consumption Plan", what is the guarantee that Azure transparently encrypts the data in-transit as well as at-rest on the hosts? Are there any documentations which can share some light on how Azure Functions fulfills HIPAA compliance?
Be careful not to conflate two separate things. The plan type is not relevant to compliance.
Azure Functions are covered for HIPAA apps. You can find the details here: Overview of Microsoft Azure compliance
Note, Azure itself is baseline compliant. But, you yourself can create and deploy an app that breaks compliance, just like you can on-prem. Azure Functions are by nature stateless, but there's little stopping you, the developer, form persisting data in a non-compliant way.
Azure is coming is with new Video Analytics API under the Azure Media Analytics(AMA) bracket, and looks promising. In the meantime, Azure Cognitive Services has also come up with Video API which can do some of the analytics jobs which already exist in AMA.
Why is Microsoft following these two different tracks to come up with analytics solution, rather than having one team look at it completely ?
Cognitive Services was designed to be a lightweight series of API's enabling cognitive capabilities for application developers. This suite comprised different forms of AI such as speech and image analysis, in addition to Video.
In the case of the Video APIs, these are actually hosted as Media Processors on the Azure Media Services (AMS) platform at the core.
In addition to what Adarsh has stated above, the other area to watch out for is compliance requirements. There are different terms of use for Cognitive Services like Video Indexer vs. Azure Media Services. At this time, if you need a fully compliant service with the Azure Terms of services, then you should look at Azure Media Services/Analytics. If you are ok with the Cognitive Services terms of service and lack of full compliance that Azure has, then you can look at videoindexer.ai.
Over time, we will be bringing more compliance to the Video Indexer platform as well, but since that is a newer set of features it will take some time.
I was looking for an answer for almost the same question but in relation to audio transcription only. Found that:
Microsoft has been developing a set of services for speech, face and
emotion recognition for quite some time, previously known as “Project
Oxford”. These services have now been bundled together in a single
pack called as Microsoft Cognitive Services. All of its components are
now made available to Azure Media Services and branded as “Azure Media
Analytics”. It makes video searchable and more accessible to users by
indexing its content.
As I understand Azure Media Services use "Cognitive Services" for analytics.
Update: Apparently, they don't know yet either.
I've recently begun using the Web Deployment Accelerator for my Windows Azure account. It is providing an immediate return in time saved and is an excellent offering.
However since "everything" is now stored to Azure Storage rather to the regular E:Drive I am immediately seeing a cost consequence for using the tool.
In one day I have racked up a mighty 4 cent NZD charge. In order to do that I had to burn through about 80,000 storage transactions and frankly i cant figure where they all went.
I uploaded 6 sites that are very small wouldn't have more than 300 files each. So I'm wondering:
a. is there is a profiling tool for the Web Deployment Accelerator that will allow me to see where and how 80,000 storage transactions were used for such a small offering. Is it storage transaction intensive tool? Has any cost analysis been carried out in terms of how this tool operates? Has it been optimised with cost in mind?
b. If I'm using this tool do i pay for 2 storage transactions per http request to a site? As since the tool now writes the web server logs to table storage, that would be one storage request to pull the http request resource (img, script, etc) and a storage request to write the log entry as well would it not?
I'm not concerned about current charges I 'm concerned about the future if i start rolling all my hosted business into the cloud. I mean Im now being charged even just to "look" at my data right? If i list the contents of a storage folder using a tool like Azure Storage Explorer that's x number of storage transactions where x = number of files in the folder?
Not sure of a 3rd-party profiler tool, but Windows Azure Storage logging and metrics will give you very detailed info regarding both individual accesses and hourly rollups. It's pretty straightforward to enable, and the November 2011 SDK includes support for the API calls required for enabling. See here for an overview of what's offered for metrics and logging.
My team worked with Fullscale180 to build a storage library, Azure Store XRay, to demonstrate how to enable and query storage metrics and logging. Note: This was published before the SDK had logging and metrics support, so it uses the REST API calls instead. But that won't impact you if you try to use the library.
You can also look at another code demo, Cloud Ninja, which calls the XRay library for its metrics display (see here for running demo).
Regarding querying storage for objects in blob containers: that's not a 1:1 transaction:file scenario. You can specify the maximum number of blobs to return when listing items in a container. It's possible that all blobs are returned in one transaction. Of course, if you then grab each blob, each of these will be at least one transaction (depending on blob size). See here for details about listing blobs.