Best Practices: Windows Azure Websites (WAWS)
Windows Azure Web Sites (WAWS) enables you to build highly scalable websites on Windows Azure. Here is an overview of the benefits of WAWS:
Efficient resource utilization:
As your customer base grows, the usage of your application increases as well. You can proactively scale your websites based on the traffic patterns to your website
Usage based costing:
Cost plays a key role in selecting the Cloud based strategy for your needs. Azure websites has usage based model (Pay-as-you-Grow) and 6 or 12 month plans to choose from. To learn more , see Windows Azure Websites Pricing
Faster time to market:
You can focus on the application and not the infrastructure. This opens up more time to unleash the creativity and productivity of the developers in turn reducing the time to market for your application
Best Practices
These practices will help you make optimal use of the infrastructure offered Windows Azure websites and provide a high performing, reliable website for your end-users.
Build a scalable architecture
Windows Azure Websites allows you to build a scalable solution on Azure, but it is critical that your website take full advantage of the scalable infrastructure provided by the service.
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