What’s new?

There’re several announcements that are made by Windows Azure team yesterday. Here’re the summary:

• Metro-style Windows Azure Home Page http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/

The site is more simplified now, the look-and-feel looks clean and comfortable.

• Windows Azure SDK for Node.js

https://github.com/WindowsAzure/azure-sdk-for-node

• Maximum database size has been increased from 50GB to 150GB.

http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/home/tour/database/

*Price will be capped to $ 499.95 per DB per month.

• SQL Azure Federation

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/2281.aspx

• Metro-styled SQL Azure Management Portal



• Some adjustment on pricing

http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/pricing/details/

More Info?

For more detail, please refer to the following links:

• http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazure/archive/2011/12/12/improved-developer-experience-interoperability-and-scalability-on-windows-azure.aspx
• http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazure/archive/2011/12/12/now-available-sql-azure-q4-2011-service-release.aspx